Tales Quotes

This was like being in one of those National Geographic magazines. We were among the natives now.

And if the characters haven't died, they carry on murdering to this very day ...

You are such a kind and caring man, and so sizzling hot and studly. Please, please don’t go nutty on me.

If you do a good deed to reap the reward of blessings, wouldn't you be performing a selfish act?

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In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds.

DEMONS MUST BE RELIGIOUSDue to exorcism based on each religion's practices

Old wives' tales have hurt cats. They're not true! Who are those Old Wives?

And you thought there was only one exit door...

Everyone wants the fairy tale, but don’t forget there are dragons in those stories.

I've got the perfect dress. It's going to knock your socks off."Marcus wasn't sure if that was good or bad, but he couldn't wait to find out.

Am I really standing here, conversing with a bloody unicorn?" Tiffy was certain her mind had finally left the building.

At the sight of Day, her whole face lit up. "Mikhail! You came! Barbara said you would, but that we might have to wait for hell to freeze over first. Did it?

I fear nothing when I am doing right, ' said Jack.'Then, ' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who slay giants.

She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.

I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don’t pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Do not lose hope - what you seek will be found.

at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.

For it is a true fact that faeries, just like people, very often find that a full belly and a good friend are all that they need to be happy.

Fairy tales were stupid. And dangerous.

Your American fairytales end that way.  Real fairytales end in blood or tears.

Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?

I don't know these stories as well as they know me, I've discovered.

What Grimm fairy tale featured apiarian morphing humans?

As it so happens, Mr. Jest, I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast…

And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.

Then find out what your sword is - find your own advantage - and wear it proudly.

Bring a sword to school. Trust me-those girls will leave you alone.

But after being on the run I've learned a life spent creating enemies isn't worth leading. Having allies is the best advantage in the world.

All these threads, like the ley-lines he'd read about in his Time-Life history books, converging on the Cicciaro girl, who lay there unaware, a glass-coffined beauty whose kingdom was in ruins.

Disheartened, enraptured, and strangely lightheaded, Grady emerged from the trees and walked back through town to the island bridge, his ankles and hands marked up with thorn scratches.

No one is too old for fairy tales.

Don’t look for permanent love. You will be disappointed. It is found only in novels, fairy-tales, and films.

Perhaps it also demonstrates that any young girl can live quite healthily on coarse bread and clear water – so long as she has fine clothes.

…while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.

Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation—a gnawing familiarity—that comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story.

If you die fighting, I want to die fighting with you.

This is what happens, when things are not quite a fairy tale.You go into the woods to find your story. If you are brave, if you are fortunate, you walk out of them to find your life.

This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever after. That ever after has to be earned, and not everyone makes it that far.

She was so lovely, it hurt his chest to gaze at her, especially knowing she was courageous and clever too.

Even in the wood, there was a right road and a wrong one. All the most terrifying fairy tales inevitably began with some foolish innocent (or two) straying from the path. Then anything might happen.

Fairy godmothers?” said the king dubiously. “We’ll have a time getting that past the court council — and the bishop.

ah, life—the thingthat happensto uswhile we’re offsomewhere elseblowing ondandelions& wishingourselves intothe pages ofour favoritefairy tales.

I like stories where women save themselves.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that fairy tales aren't real. I drink a potion made from magic beans every day, and it brings me back to life.

Don’t you know that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?

Cinderella proof that a new pair of shoes can change your life.

Pan took the joke good-naturedly, probably deciding it wasn't a good idea to argue with a fifteen-year-old who had just pulled two people up ten feet.

There is no greater achievement than being a grandfather who tells fairy tales to grandchildren.