He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely.
A door was suddenly opened, the draught caught the little dancer and she fluttered like a sylph, straight into the fire, to the soldier, blazed up and was gone!
By this time the soldier was reduced to a mere lump, and when the maid took away the ashes next morning she found him, in the shape of a small tin heart. All that was left of the dancer was her spangle, and that was burnt as black as a coal.
Tag: sad hans-christian-andersen fairytale tin-soldier
The fairytale belongs to the poor. I know of no fairytale which upholds the tyrant or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairytale is an absurdity.
Gregory MaguireTag: fairytale
Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes." - commentary on Castles on the Sand
E.M. TippettsTag: love family brothers hero ya fairytale teen rescue book-review sweet-romance castles-on-the-sand pitch
I'm just not built for fairytale surprises.
Karen TayleurPossibly, she thought, the pool of answers was limited. There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.
Antonia MichaelisTag: fairytale abel-tannatek micha
Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.
Sarah Rees BrennanWhy any self-respecting fairy godmother would pass them over for an inane twit who relied on animals to do her housecleaning was beyond her.
Marie Sibree HallTag: alice-in-wonderland fairytale fairy-godmother her-mad-hatter
Truly, there is magic in fairy tales.
For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time...' to allure and spellbind an audience.
Tag: imagination story storytelling fairy-tales magic fairytale richelle richelle-goodrich spellbind
After a little bit, [the wolf] heard a human voice call out from inside the house, "Little Red Riding Hood, is that you? Have you come to visit your Granny?" But since the wolf didn't speak human, he guessed what the person had said was: "Did I hear something? Is there someone out there who needs to come in, could you scratch louder?" So that's what the wolf did: he scratched louder.
Vivian Vande VeldeTag: wolf fairytale retellings little-red-riding-hood
Love is a fairytale blah, blah, blah.
Jessica FortunatoTag: love heart funny fairy-tale fairytale sarcasm-humor
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