Top 29 Adult Fairy Tales Quotes

#1. I've enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships.

Joe Torre

#2. Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

Plutarch

#3. There is no adult terror equivalent to what an innocent child experiences when first confronted with the truth that evil is not merely a figment of fairy tales, that it walks the world in countless forms, and that what it seeks most aggressively is the destruction of the innocent.

Dean Koontz

#4. Faith is not just thinking you can do things, but believing god can handle all things!

Philip Cook

#5. 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

#6. Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

Kate Forsyth

#7. Nobody knew exactly how the zombification process worked, and there were as many different strains as theories.

Nicki Elson

#8. But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Simone Elkeles

#9. As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.

Kate Bernheimer

#10. He met each newly exposed piece of flesh with a tender kiss, remembering how he'd dreamed of doing exactly this on the very first night he'd seen her.

Nicki Elson

#11. Keep your sword close and your friends closer.

Kiley Kellermeyer

#12. I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and they can have creative freedom.

James L. Brooks

#13. Spring is the sound of birds chirping, the taste of cherry juice, the feel of grass on bare feet, the sight of pink roses and blue skies, and the feel of dandelion fuzz. Spring, in other words, is a welcome, wondrous sensory overload.

Toni Sorenson

#14. Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?

Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you.

Marissa Meyer

#15. I never read any fairy tales or classics until I was an adult; all we ever had was comics ... No television, either. If we wanted entertainment, we hung around the fish shop.

Michael Foreman

#16. At the end of the day, I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. If that makes me an outlaw, so be it. I've been called worse.

Angela Parkhurst

#17. When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.

Pippa Middleton

#18. I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still in print today. My first young adult book was published a couple of years later, and I've been writing in both genres ever since.

Michael Scott

#19. Sometimes Crawford's tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll.

Thomas Harris

#20. No amount of wavy blond hair nor evenings spent with her plump lips applying just the right amount of pressure to his various pleasure points could make up for the rotting carcass of a soul that resided beneath all that beauty.

Nicki Elson

#21. As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Gail Carson Levine

#22. I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice versa. My one steadfast prejudice is against being wrong.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#23. Who am I kidding? This isn't a fairy tale. It's my life.

Zoe Cruz

#24. What Hans had intended to end at a simple kiss quickly escalated into something neither one of them seemed able to stop.

Nicki Elson

#25. In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

Donna Shalala

#26. It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.

Kate Bernheimer

#27. Performing the duty prescribed by (one's own) nature, one incurreth no sin.

Anonymous

#28. I'll never know how to love you the right way if I don't also know how to be your friend, Mia.

Bella Andre

#29. How would I feel about hearing that the plague killed another nearby village a month later? Didn't I tell you stupidity is the eighth sin?
Excerpt From: Cameron Jace. .

Cameron Jace

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