If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
G.K. ChestertonTag: fairy-tales
At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.
C.S. LewisTag: fairy-tales
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.
Max LuthiTag: fairy-tales
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.
Terri WindlingTag: fairy-tales
I will tell you, too, that every fairy tale has a moral. The moral of my story may be that love is a constraint, as strong as any belt. And this is certainly true, which makes it a good moral. Or it may be that we are all constrained in some way, either in our bodies, or in our hearts or minds, an Empress as well as the woman who does her laundry. ... Perhaps it is that a shoemaker's daughter can bear restraint less easily than an aristocrat, that what he can bear for three years she can endure only for three days. ... Or perhaps my moral is that our desire for freedom is stronger than love or pity. That is a wicked moral, or so the Church has taught us. But I do not know which moral is the correct one. And that is also the way of a fairy tale.
Theodora GossTag: love fairy-tales
If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Audrey HepburnTag: fairy-tales
The fairy tale is not the conclusion, but the doorway to a more brilliant reality. Pushed onto a pedestal as the final answer their worth is misshapen and distorted. The world’s story may end with a couple living happily ever after but our life in Christ enables the intimacy of the human relationship to illuminate an eternal perfection. In a balanced perspective, neither denigrated nor exalted from their intended place, fairy tales are a lovely and exhilarating part of life.
Natalie NyquistTag: beauty fairy-tales
Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.
John ConnollyTag: stories fantasy fairy-tales
There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.
Neil GaimanTag: fantasy fairy-tales faery
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
Alice HoffmanTag: stories fairy-tales
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