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One thing I found out then was that pity is a form of love and, actually, its highest expression.
A Tale of Two Sisters — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale. — Cory Doctorow

Like the hero of a fairy-tale Mr Norrell had discovered that the power to do what he wished had been his own all along. — Susanna Clarke

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story. — Marian Keyes

A simple tale, told at the right moment, transforms a person's life with the order its pattern brings to incoherent energies. (Myth and Education) — Ted Hughes

You know how your mother and I met," Dad began.
I rolled my eyes. "Everyone does. You two are practically a fairy tale. — Kiera Cass

Why can't love be a fairy tale? — Amy Davis

This isn't a fairy tale. This is reality. If you two end up following your hearts and not your heads, it'll end in disaster. — Colleen Hoover

Being dead is highly overrated. It's no fun at all.
Mythe: A Fairy Tale — P.J. Gordon

A rich man's soup - and all from a few stones. It seemed like magic! — Marcia Brown

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale. — Frank McCourt

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport. — Joan Chen

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere. — H. G. Bissinger

Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. — D.H. Lawrence

Inspiring tale of a rock star who loses his hearing. Title: I Can't Hear You. — Scott Meyer

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. — John Gay

Tell mea tale from the days when shadow cloaked the land, when the Dark Crystal and its missing shard had not yet been reunited. — Barbara Randall Kesel

What a many-sided thing is the telling of any tale. — Gene Wolfe

Having achieved and accomplished love ... man ... has become himself, his tale is told. — D.H. Lawrence

I had opened a book that could not be closed, started a story that had no obvious conclusion. It was a tale in which I wanted to play no part. — Matthew Skelton

As in any proper fairy tale, there's a majick formula, in this case called the Rule of Nines. — Andrew Davidson

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between — Kristen Bell

Red Riding Hood is not a fairy tale, but rather a universal story about courage and growing up — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record. — Marina Tsvetaeva

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books. — Ruth Ozeki

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. — Charles Lamb

We're Cinder and Ella, woman! We're supposed to get our fairy-tale ending! — Kelly Oram

I believe that I must do everything I can do to lessen misery. That's all I can do, and that is something enormous. It is a great power. — Anne Rice

We think we know what love is; but, what we do not know is - that love is a true fairy tale. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Is it true?" she asked. "Is the tale true?" "What is true for your people is not true for mine," he answered. — Malinda Lo

There is a tale ... It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow. — Cameron Dokey

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre. — Terry A. O'Neal

Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive. — Jane Yolen

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Photos of the interior displayed a warren of rooms as worn and welcoming as a fairy-tale grandmother's lap, and as rumpled. — Nancy Thayer

And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End. — Jon Scieszka

A fairy tale with a twisted ending, one in which the sun sets like napalm on the prince and princess as they walk off, sticky all over with fire. — Laura Kasischke

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Don't you think it's best that you stay away from mortals? You know they break so easily these days. — Kimberly Spencer

I fell in love with you like the stars fell in love with the sky, without you I am empty and bare. — Seja Majeed

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. — Savielly Tartakower

I have had you in my life for so long, I want to know when the dream ends and the fairy-tale begins... — Virginia Alison

I should retire for the night," she said. "I know I make it look so effortless, but world domination is exhausting. — Chris Colfer

Fear is a powerful enemy, but not one too strong to overcome. — Kiley Kellermeyer

But I want to be loved. I have always been loved. I want my husband to love me with a passion, like in a troubadour tale, like a knight. — Philippa Gregory

At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn't exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale. — Kelly Moran

I tried to smile but feared I would cry. 'I always wondered what it was like to be shot.'
'Now you've lived to tell the tale. — Cameron Stracher

Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale. — R.J. Craddock

To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part,
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Something tells me this isn't going to end well for everyone involved. Someone may get turned into a frog yet." And that was the good news. — Deborah Blake

Cautionary Tale: Blood is seldom thicker than blood. — Kris Waldherr

My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing. — David Hewson

Soun Tendo: Drowned Octopus Spring?
Guide from Jusenkyo: Is tragic tale of giant octopus who drown 1600 year ago ... somehow. — Rumiko Takahashi

Just because you are married don't believe your fairy tale is complete. — Francesca Castagnoli

all things soon pass away and become a mere tale, and complete oblivion soon buries them. And I say this of those who have shone in a wondrous way. — Marcus Aurelius

A false tale often betrays itself. — Aesop

Romance is an illusion of love and excitement that touches our hearts and mind. It lingers in our memories like a fairy tale. — Debasish Mridha

the man eventually becomes what he dreams of"
By T. Afsin Ilgar - Ted's Tale — T. Afsin Ilgar

Angels do not whisper in our ears. Predestination is a fairy tale, a bedtime story for adults scared of meaningless death. — Paul Doiron

Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Fairytales have rules. We may never understand them but they've been hammered into our heads since infancy. Eventually, even the rebels conform. — Angela Parkhurst

In this night, pure and everlasting, like an old fairy tale, being Turkish felt infinitely better than being poor. — Orhan Pamuk

He bent lower to whisper in her ear, I love you, queen of beauty and love. — Melanie Dickerson

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale. — William Shakespeare

Love, like life, isn't a tragedy or a fairy tale - it's both. — Jeannine Allison

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. — Philip Sidney

You and I, we can be the best of friends, but don't expect to find your fairy tale under my roof. You got me? — J.M. Darhower

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love. — Propertius

Holy swoon-gate!' Elliot exclaims when I finally get to the end of my tale. 'If that's what Brooklyn boys are like I'm emigrating as soon as possible! — Zoe Sugg

I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison — Fannie Flagg

Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes. — Trina Schart Hyman

For a moment in time she had been a lady, someone who was wanted ... — Melanie Dickerson

If by it, you mean that big ass vein in the middle of your forehead, then yeah. It moved all right and it's still pulsing. — Kimberly Spencer

Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to. — Phoebe Stone

She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little old lady. — Drew Magary

Fairy tales are more than true ... — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it? I'm the one really telling it, after all. — Anne Rice

When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy. — Mark Helprin

Tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled — Walter Isaacson

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. — Paul Di Filippo

I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them. — Claire Wong

Perhaps the only happily ever after is to survive to tell the story — Kat Howard

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way. — Joni Mitchell

Crazy loves company, Sir Clay. — Marissa Meyer

Love was only a ridiculous fairy tale that was never satisfying, warm, or safe. — Christina Lee

The witch knew who had killed her and she snatched pieces of time, here and there, from the business of dying, to make her revenge. — Kelly Link

The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you. — Sara Teasdale

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. — George Santayana

The tale of someone's life begins before they are born. — Michael Wood

So this fairy tale is a horror story — Michael Buckley

If this were a fairy tale, I'd be my own damned knight. — Sally Slater

I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice. — J.K. Rowling

I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. — John Stamos

Here's flowers for you; hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold. The Winter's Tale, Act 4, Sc.4 — William Shakespeare

I have been to the edge and lived to tell the tale.. — Rebecca Wells

Can a man change the stars?"
"Yes William. If he believes enough, a man can do anything! — A Knights Tale

Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper. — Amanda Hocking

My eyelashes tickled the peephole. from Fogged Up Fairy Tale (Summer 2014) — Denise Baer

I'm thinking, he said. To bed or not to bed his wife? That was the question. — Maya Rodale