Gardens are made of darkness and light entwined.
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She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?
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I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.
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Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance.. (But) the best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of mere appearance... In most instances, fantasy ultimately returns us to our own now re-enchanted world, reminding us that it is neither prosaic nor meaningless, and that how we live and what we do truly matters.
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The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.
We are in this fairyland on sufferance; it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this wild vision of the world.
Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.
Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul.
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There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved. Never-ending Story
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.
He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the lights of Wall behind him, wavering and glimmering as if in a heat-haze, but still inviting.
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.. Remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.
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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.
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Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical stories were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike, while literary fairy tales (including most of the tales that are best known today) were published primarily for adult readers until the 19th century.
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You are the fairy told by your ancestors.
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You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
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Truly, there is magic in fairytales. For it takes but a simply-uttered to allure and spellbind an audience.
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The fairy tale belongs to the poor..I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairy tale is an absurdity.
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That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.
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When assaulted by sexual knowledge for the first time, a girl plunges into a period of blackness, which is required in order to let her emotions catch up with her body. Sleeping Beauty sleeps. Cinderella waits, and while she waits she works her way through the darkness of depression. Snow White both works and sleeps before she is ready to open her eyes and find a Prince leaning over her.
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There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger.
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Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?
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Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.
My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
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