{"quotes":[{"text":"You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here’s a hint—ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn’t just the women. It’s the great male fantasy—all it takes is one dance to know that she’s the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know—this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And they don’t want a very long courtship. They want to know immediately.","author":"Rachel Cohn","tags":["fairy-tale","love"],"id":504,"author_id":"Rachel+Cohn"},{"text":"The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.","author":"Philip José Farmer","tags":["fairy-tale","genre","kurt-vonnegut","parable","ray-bradbury","science-fiction"],"id":816,"author_id":"Philip+Jos%C3%A9+Farmer"},{"text":"There was much work to be done in the crone's cottage, but the Princess was never heard to complain, for she was a true Princess with a pure heart. The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. Thus did the Princess grow up contented. She came to love the changing seasons and learned the satisfaction of sowing seeds and tending crops. And although she was becoming beautiful, the Princess did not know it, for the crone had neither looking glass nor vanity and thus the Princess had not learned the ways of either.","author":"Kate Morton","tags":["crone","fairy-tale","princess","story"],"id":4822,"author_id":"Kate+Morton"},{"text":"It’s a funny thing to be the product of a fairy-tale romance. It’s another thing to think you might find one yourself. You can read the stories and watch the movies, and you can think you know how it’s all supposed to unfold.But the truth is, love is as much fate as it is planning, as much a beauty as it is a disaster.Finding a prince might mean kissing a lot of frogs. Or kicking a lot of frogs out of your house. Falling might mean running headfirst into something you always wanted. Or dipping your toe into something you’ve been scared of your whole life. Happily ever after could be waiting in a field a mile wide. Or a window as narrow as seven minutes.","author":"Keira Cass","tags":["beauty","fairy-tale","fate","happily-ever-after","keira-cass","love","prince","quotes","romance","the-crown"],"id":5430,"author_id":"Keira+Cass"},{"text":"It’s destiny; the stars have aligned perfectly to bring us together as friends. You cannot argue with what’s meant to be, once the stars have spoken, it is absolute,” he uttered, all smug and knowing. Shocked that he used the word destiny, I cocked my head and shot him a look—for the first time actually seeing Parker. He was pretty…too pretty to be a guy; streaky blond hair—as if each streak had been strategically placed—dark eyes, pale skin, and a charming smile that dimpled in one cheek. “Destiny has already found me, with a clearly marked path for my future,” I retorted. “Then you are doubly fortunate, to have it find you twice.” Parker smiled again, his eyes eerily piercing into mine.","author":"Deborah Ann","tags":["destiny","fairy-tale","fate","first-love","paranormal-romance","romance","seventh-son-of-a-seventh-son","vampire-hunter","vampires","young-adult-romance"],"id":9991,"author_id":"Deborah+Ann"},{"text":"...One cannot help but consider the future- what will it be like when all the wild places of the earth have been taken over by civilization, and there is no more room for Indians, Pirates, and Wild Boys?","author":"Christopher Daniel Mechling","tags":["change","childhood","fairy-tale","future","indians","innocence","peter-pan","peter-the-wild-boy","pirates","progressod","true-story"],"id":10004,"author_id":"Christopher+Daniel+Mechling"},{"text":"Crazy loves company, Sir Clay.","author":"Marissa Meyer","tags":["cinderella","fairy-tale","little-red-riding-hood","lunar-chronicles","rapunzel","snow-white","winter"],"id":10245,"author_id":"Marissa+Meyer"},{"text":"You think her innocent/ Your little lost girl/ Caped in Inquisition red/ Yet when she leads you hunting Hyde/ Mind don't slay Jekyll in his stead.","author":"Shannon Barnsley","tags":["fairy-tale","poetry","poetry"],"id":11284,"author_id":"Shannon+Barnsley"},{"text":"Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy.","author":"Cherie Priest","tags":["affair","fairy-tale","tragedy"],"id":19761,"author_id":"Cherie+Priest"},{"text":"It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... Is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times... Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["culture","desire","fairy-tale","forbidden","fulfillment","future","gods","humanity","mankind","omnipotence","omniscience","prediction","science","wish"],"id":22469,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":141,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}