Fairy Tales For Adults Quotes

#1. In you, she saw hope.""You mean she saw his next meal.

Nicki Elson

#2. Life was indeed good for a Wolf-Creature in the deep woods who had found his very own little red-headed chew toy.

Bella Swann

#3. I was hoping to find a way out of here and instead found you.

Nicki Elson

#4. That's the ideal meeting ... once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

Helen Oyeyemi

#5. He'd only ever seen her twice, only talked to her once, but as he now gazed upon her, he realized that he'd missed her all day long.

Nicki Elson

#6. The path of temptation is gradual and intelligent, not as sudden and random as it seems.

Russell D. Moore

#7. I don't listen to the refs. I don't listen to anyone who makes less money than I do.

Charles Barkley

#8. Rapunzel shivered as she felt the tantalizing warm breath of the leopard and the vibrations from his panting tickle and tease her in such an intimate place.

Bella Swann

#9. I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.

Dominic Monaghan

#10. Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

C.S. Lewis

#11. Drawing her closer he tucked his chin and lifted hers to meet his abysmal onyx eyes.

Jennifer Silverwood

#12. In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds.

Nicki Elson

#13. I was learning the ways of the world; one of them being that the presence of a certain type of curly-haired man - your type - will cause you to fidget and fidget until the only way to reach some level of calm is to touch him. pg.38

Helen Oyeyemi

#14. Never mess with a girl wearing spiked heels.

Nicki Elson

#15. The candle's flame washed her in a sensual bath of pulsating light, and Hans became entranced by the soft glow upon her skin.

Nicki Elson

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

Donna Shalala

#17. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

Leo Rosten

#18. In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end our disastrous trade policies. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And we have to fight for pay equity for women.

Bernie Sanders

#19. When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.

Bill Ayers

#20. You are such a kind and caring man, and so sizzling hot and studly. Please, please don't go nutty on me.

Nicki Elson

#21. Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.

Helen Oyeyemi

#22. And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.

Emma Donoghue

#23. Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.

Phife Dawg

#24. I'm glad she's so smitten with her new huntsman boyfriend and all, but venison-wurst? Gag me with a harpsichord.

Nicki Elson

#25. It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and baffling way possible, then forgive and forget about it because they happen to like the look of each other. Only they call it falling in love.

Helen Oyeyemi

#26. Music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

Rebecca West

#27. And if the characters haven't died, they carry on murdering to this very day ...

Rebekka Kricheldorf

#28. Amie frowned. 'That's what I can't figure out. I mean everyone wants their happy ending, right? No one cares about reading actual literature anymore anyway. All they want is vampires and supernatural mumbo-jumbo. It's sick, really.

Jennifer Silverwood

#29. Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

Amelia Barr

#30. Son of a Merryweather, he's a lot stronger than he looks.

Nicki Elson

#31. Keep pollinating the world with your kindness.

H. L. Balcomb

#32. I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like.

Julian McMahon

#33. All that the Lord requires of us is strict obedience to the laws of life. All the sacrifice that the Lord asks of his people is strict obedience to our own covenants that we have made with our God, and that is to serve him with an undivided heart.

Brigham Young

#34. Take care of the hearts you've been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever.

Yasmin Mogahed