{"quotes":[{"text":"He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many doorways, he would have pointed out that this was a reasonable assumption.","author":"Eloisa James","tags":["eloisa-james","fairy-tales","humor","romance","the-duke-is-mine"],"id":2495,"author_id":"Eloisa+James"},{"text":"She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names be symbols that their lives are worth the keeping. Let them struggle a little the harder, to keep their names.","author":"Robin McKinley","tags":["fairy-tales","fantasy","retelling"],"id":3520,"author_id":"Robin+McKinley"},{"text":"Please tell a story about a girl who gets away.”I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. “Gets away from what, though?”“From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn’t really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like ‘happy’ and ‘good’ will never find her.”“You don’t want her to be happy and good?”“I’m not sure what’s really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin.","author":"Helen Oyeyemi","tags":["fairy-tales","freedom"],"id":6224,"author_id":"Helen+Oyeyemi"},{"text":"The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest.","author":"Walter Benjamin","tags":["fairy-tales"],"id":7247,"author_id":"Walter+Benjamin"},{"text":"Everything beautiful is golden and strewn with pearls. Even golden people live here. But misfortune is a dark power, a monstrous, cannibalistic giant, who is, however, vanquished, because a good woman, who happily knows how to avert disaster, stands ready to help.","author":"Jack D. Zipes","tags":["fairy-tales","inspirational","life"],"id":9600,"author_id":"Jack+D.+Zipes"},{"text":"As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she was in a bad mood.('The Queen Fantasque').","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["discipline","fairy-tales"],"id":9909,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"},{"text":"When you enter the woods of a fairy tale and it is night, the trees tower on either side of the path. They loom large because everything in the world of fairy tales is blown out of proportion. If the owl shouts, the otherwise deathly silence magnifies its call. The tasks you are given to do (by the witch, by the stepmother, by the wise old woman) are insurmountable - pull a single hair from the crescent moon bear's throat; separate a bowl's worth of poppy seeds from a pile of dirt. The forest seems endless. But when you do reach the daylight, triumphantly carrying the particular hair or having outwitted the wolf; when the owl is once again a shy bird and the trees only a lush canopy filtering the sun, the world is forever changed for your having seen it otherwise. From now on, when you come upon darkness, you'll know it has dimension. You'll know how closely poppy seeds and dirt resemble each other. The forest will be just another story that has absorbed you, taken you through its paces, and cast you out again to your home with its rattling windows and empty refrigerator - to your meager livelihood, which demands, inevitably, that you write about it.","author":"Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew","tags":["fairy-tales","story","writing"],"id":11917,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Jarrett+Andrew"},{"text":"If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.","author":"Priya Ardis","tags":["arthurian","chick-lit","coming-of-age","e-books","ebooks","fairy-tales","fantasy","heroic-fantasy","mythology","paranormal","paranormal-romance","retellings","sword-and-sworcery","urban-fantasy","wizards","ya-paranormal","ya-romance","young-adult","young-adult-fantasy"],"id":13525,"author_id":"Priya+Ardis"},{"text":"Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.","author":"Priya Ardis","tags":["action","adventure","arthurian","arthurian-collection","camelot","coming-of-age","fairy-tales","fantasy","fiction","greek-mythology","history","love","magic","merlin","mermaid","mythology","novel","paranormal","paranormal-romance","poseidon","retellings","romance","sea-creatures","sword","sword-and-sorcery","teen","time-travel","urban-fantasy","wizards","women-s-fiction","ya","ya-fantasy","ya-paranormal","ya-romance","young-adult"],"id":14350,"author_id":"Priya+Ardis"},{"text":"The Dreamer awakesThe shadow goes byThe tale I have told you,That tale is a lie.But listen to me,Bright maiden, proud youthThe tale is a lie;What it tells is the truth.","author":"Traditional folktale ending","tags":["fairy-tales","folklore","storytelling","truth"],"id":15564,"author_id":"Traditional+folktale+ending"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":500,"pages":50,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}