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#1

“He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. 鈥淚 miss you,鈥� Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: prose

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#2

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

33956 likes

#3

“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: atonement, saints, sin, sinners

763 likes

#4

“Chemistry is great, but eventually your relationship moves out of the laboratory.”
― Tim Fargo

tags: attraction, chemistry, love, lovers, loving, lust, lustful, relationship-humor, relationships, spark

17 likes

#5

“Jess." He whispers. "That was far from manhandling you sweetheart. I'm just claiming what I want, and make no mistake," He places tender kisses along my jaw leading down to my neck. "I. Always. Get. What. I. Want." He breathes in between kisses. "You would do pretty well to remember that." -Max Wild”
― S.M. Phillips, Escape down under

tags: escape, lustful, romance

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#6

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: life, passion, war

5083 likes

#7

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion

4196 likes

#8

“With my last breath, I鈥檒l exhale my love for you. I hope it鈥檚 a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me.鈥�”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

1178 likes

#9

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

10739 likes

#10

“Sleep my little baby-oh
Sleep until you waken
When you wake you'll see the world
If I'm not mistaken...

Kiss a lover
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure...

Face your life
Its pain,
Its pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

tags: awakening, choice, dance, identity, individuality, life, love, name, pain, pleasure, sleep, treasure

1430 likes

#11

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: cleanliness, consciousness, corruption, feet, individuality, mind, purity

4289 likes

#12

“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
― Mae West

tags: decadence, fairy-tales, innuendo, purity, risque, snow-white, virginity

697 likes

#13

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45329 likes

#14

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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#15

“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”
― Taylor Swift

tags: fairy-tales, inspirational, prince-charming, taylor-swift

4875 likes

#16

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

1810 likes

#17

“Gaea?鈥� Leo shook his head. 鈥淚sn鈥檛 that Mother Nature? She鈥檚 supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry.鈥�
鈥淟eo, that鈥檚 Snow White,鈥� Piper said.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

tags: fairy-tales, gaea, leo-valdez, piper-mclean

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#18

“But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

tags: alex-fuentes, bhie, fairy-tales, fiction, on-fiction, perfect-chemistry, simon-elkeles, wishes, young-adult

793 likes

#19

“She talks like you. It鈥檚 not every day you hear a four-year-old say Prince Charming is a douchebag who鈥檚 only holding Cinderella back.鈥�

"That鈥檚 my girl.”
― Emma Chase, Tangled

tags: cinderella, fairy-tales, feminism, humor

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#20

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity

2870 likes

#21

“Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen

tags: fairy-tales, stories

299 likes

#22

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology

4119 likes

#23

“Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?”
― Priya Ardis, My Boyfriend Merlin

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

73 likes

#24

“He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the lights of Wall behind him, wavering and glimmering as if in a heat-haze, but still inviting.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

tags: faery, fairy-tales, fantasy

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#25

“I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep.”
― Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep

tags: fairy-tales, legends, sleeping-beauty, young-adult

59 likes

#26

“I caught his hand. 鈥淲hat do you want me to do?鈥�
Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. 鈥淭omorrow, I need you to die.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

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

81 likes

#27

“Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.”
― Terri Windling, White as Snow

tags: fairy-tales

70 likes

#28

“It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make that happen. Isn't that so?"
It took him a minute. "Yes," he said finnally. "It's so. Although, if we're just going to talk about the baby, I can think of an easier way to save her."
Oh? What?"
I'd just lock her up from her sixteenth birthday on."
Lucy didn't laugh. "Don't think I haven't thought of that too, love. but here's the thing. That parents try that in all the fairy tales. It never works.”
― Nancy Werlin, Impossible

tags: fairy-tales, hope, love

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#29

“I noticed him right away. No, it wasn鈥檛 his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn鈥檛 the slim, collarless biker jacket he wore, hugging his lean shoulders. It was the way he stood. The confident way he waited in the cafeteria line to get a slice of pizza. He didn鈥檛 saunter. He didn鈥檛 amble. He stood at the center, and let the other people buzz around him. His stance was straight and sure.”
― Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin

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

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#30

“Well, can you tell her that?"
He looked down at his feet. "I will. I will."
Guy-speak for, "I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

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

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