Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C.S. LewisTags: growing-up age fairytales
Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh and truth-bearing light.
Leonard S. MarcusTags: fantasy on-fiction fiction fairytales
Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?
J.K. RowlingTags: fairytales
The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.
Angela CarterTags: fairytales little-red-riding-hood the-bloody-chamber
Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip through, with her basket--Little Red Riding-Hood comes to me one Christmas Eve to give me information of the cruelty and treachery of that dissembling Wolf who ate her grandmother, without making any impression on his appetite, and then ate her, after making that ferocious joke about his teeth. She was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding-Hood, I should have known perfect bliss. But, it was not to be; and there was nothing for it but to look out the Wolf in the Noah's Ark there, and put him late in the procession on the table, as a monster who was to be degraded.
Charles DickensTags: christmas wolves dickens wolf fairytales charles-dickens fairytale red little-red-riding-hood christmas-eve little-red noah-s-ark
But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true.
Jostein GaarderTags: life love promises fairytales
He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.
James Finn GarnerTags: humour satire wolf fairytales politically-correct red-riding-hood
While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and just happened to be economically disadvantaged.
James Finn GarnerTags: humour satire fairytales politically-correct
The emperor is naked!"
The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted:
"No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!
Tags: humour satire clothes fairytales politically-correct emeror-s-new-clothes emperor
Once we have accepted the story, we cannot escape the story's fate.
P.L. TraversTags: fairytales sleeping-beauty briar-rose
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