… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.
I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.
It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality.
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.
A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.
Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do their own magic.
I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.
I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.
It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.
I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.
In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.
I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are the beginning.
As young girls we grow up with the idea that life is going to be a bit of a fairytale. But at some point reality hits and we realise that's not what life is about. Many of us are faced with eating disorders and mental health struggles, bad relationships and heartbreak, low self-esteem and confused sexualities and more. Life is very much real.
She tasted of fairytales
We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead
Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see.
A lot of people would think I have led this easy kind of charmed life, or maybe even a fairytale in some ways. But it has been anything but that.
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.
