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“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.”
― Danielle Steel

“The best way to explain it is to do it.”
― Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where—” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
“—so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an explanation.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”
― Lewis Carroll

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.”
― Kit Williams

“In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter: and in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.”
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you ca’n’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us.”
― John C. Reilly

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.”
― Arnaud Desplechin

“I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people.”
― Leo McCarey

“I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Tut, tut, child!” said the Duchess. “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”
― Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland

“It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.”
― Mark Twain

“Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.”
― Andrea Dworkin

“Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.”
― Babette Deutsch

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal