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Don't the great tales never end? — J.R.R. Tolkien

Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all. — Julie Kagawa

Son of a Merryweather, he's a lot stronger than he looks. — Nicki Elson

Fairy Tales give you more than just smile.
They give you Hope.
Hope that at the end true love conquers all odds and slays every dragon. — Ameya Agrawal

When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look. — Jocelynn Drake

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales. — Carol Ann Duffy

We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges; we hear the subtle shifts of rhythm in the beat of a blackening heart. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

Too many peoples have traveled back and forth, and too many legends and tales have mingled. — George R R Martin

Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share. — Stasia Ward Kehoe

Happy endings aren't just for fairy tales and massage parlors. — Susan Gloss

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

In olden times, when wishing still helped...."
- The Frog King | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm — Jack D. Zipes

If you like the fairy tales, visit the old towns! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never mess with a girl wearing spiked heels. — Nicki Elson

There are no endings, and there are no fairy tales. But the pages keep being written. Time soldiers on. — Jill Dembowski

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor. — David Gregory

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all. — Henry David Thoreau

Fairy tales can come true
It can happen to you
If you're young at heart — Frank Sinatra

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak. — K'naan

So please enjoy these Tales - before a crackling fire on a chilly night, ideally, — Ransom Riggs

If you die fighting, I want to die fighting with you. — Melanie Dickerson

In every one of the Greeks' mythology tales, there is this: a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. There is never a meeting in the middle. — Jesmyn Ward

DEMONIC POSSESSION
Our genes on display in our kids
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

Life is a fantasy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Not all who are lost are lost forever. — Jorge Enrique Ponce

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales. — Cory Doctorow

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

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates. — Gail Carson Levine

Your work tells tales. — Todd Henry

Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on. — Tim McGraw

The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in. — Harold Clarke Goddard

G. I. Gurdieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson"
So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be.
Mullah's favorite saying. p. 598 — Gurdieff

A false tale often betrays itself. — Aesop

It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life. — Soman Chainani

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

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

Rachael could find no solace in other people's tales of woe. Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering. — Rhidian Brook

The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath. — Padraig Pearse

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's. — John Connolly

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A.S. Byatt

My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up. — Irena A. Hoffman

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

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. — Helena Bonham Carter

We need creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life. — Danielle Ganek

He met each newly exposed piece of flesh with a tender kiss, remembering how he'd dreamed of doing exactly this on the very first night he'd seen her. — Nicki Elson

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive. — Marina Warner

Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. — Charles Bukowski

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

Of all the tales in all the kingdoms in all the Woods, you had to walk into mine. — Soman Chainani

What Hans had intended to end at a simple kiss quickly escalated into something neither one of them seemed able to stop. — Nicki Elson

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

He tells old wives' tales much to the point. — Horace

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? — Charles Caleb Colton

There are no fairy tales in the wild, no Cinderella stories. The lowly wolf that seems to rise to the top of the pack was really the alpha all along — Jodi Picoult

He held out the pendant in the palm of his hand.
"Happy birthday, Copper," he whispered. — Sharon Lynn Fisher

I remember a time where Trolls were a fictitious monster from fairy tales, not arseholes on the internet looking for attention. — Robert O'Sullivan

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do. — Katherine Applegate

MISTEND MINDSET
Manipulate suicidal thoughts to manufacture life-coping tools — Kamil Ali

Remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of. — Andrew Lang

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. — Mo Willems

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through. — Jim C. Hines

In the stories, the old fairy tales, a hero comes. But all my heroes are gone or dead. No one is coming for me. — Victoria Aveyard

My name is Tess Little. But everyone calls me Red. — Kate SeRine

Do you believe in fairy tales?"
"What ... what kind of fairy tales?"
"The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on. — Richelle Mead

I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I'd believed I could keep out the tales and the toys but had failed on both counts. — Peggy Orenstein

The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

She'd been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales. — Michelle Madow

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales. — Lisa Jakub

If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal. — Susanne Bier

That's the ideal meeting ... once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again. — Helen Oyeyemi

Breathe the air, taste the wine, kiss the girls, and always remember that the tales of another are never as wondrous as your own. — Michael J. Sullivan

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. — Chris Colfer

I love who you are, yesterday, now, tomorrow, always. — Gena Showalter

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

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

Messersmith, in a dispatch, observed that even smart, well-traveled Germans will "sit and calmly tell you the most extraordinary fairy tales. — Erik Larson

All men were liars and he was no doubt no different - only one tongue and more tales than the dog pound. — Richard Flanagan

They loved fairy tales so much. If they ever got here and saw everything we've seen, I doubt they would have left. — Chris Colfer

House, and trust me, he wasn't the type to read fairy tales — J.K. Rowling

There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger. — Elizabeth Leiknes

You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can. — Elena Ferrante

If the wishes came true, they came true in terrible ways. Wishes were dangerous things. That was the idea you got from fairy tales. — Kate DiCamillo

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

He was beginning to understand how those ridiculous tales had made her a prisoner of others' expectations. — Tessa Dare

When your heart is broken, it's easier to follow rules — Betsy Cornwell

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales. — Arthur Kornberg

Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind. — Jimi Hendrix

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in. — Kate Forsyth

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. — Jane Levy

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. — Fareed Zakaria

The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change. — Pamela Yates

THE TWAIN DOTH MEET
East and West are relative to their shared starting point
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

Dragons were a problem sometimes, but they only came on Tuesdays, so you could work around them. — Mike Carey

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

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing. — Karen Lord

I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me — Natalia Kills