Fairytale Retelling Quotes

#1. If I didn't know my body, I'd swear I just had a small orgasm ...

A.R. Von

#2. Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Ronald Reagan

#3. Daughter, he said in a voice like old wood breaking, can you ever forgive me?
I could only answer his question with one of my own. Putting my hand over his mouth, I whispered, Which of us would not sell all we had to stay alive?

Emma Donoghue

#4. My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

Alan Jackson

#6. Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams ... their demons

Eliza Granville

#7. She kicked her feet as hard as she could, over and over

Jennifer Hayden

#8. I try imagining myself in forty years, but it's like trying to picture what lies beyond the universe.

Haruki Murakami

#9. 'I'm happy,' David said. 'All the time. It's amazing. I think of you and I want to smile. Do I make you want to smile?'
'No,' Alec said, and kissed him. David could feel the curve of his mouth against his own.

Wheeler Scott

#10. An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

#11. I believe in a world where love can still catch you off guard and where the best part is the falling stage. Those shy glances, the racing heart, flushed cheeks, and the butterflies? That's magic.
~Sarah Brocious on More Than Scars

Sarah Brocious

#12. Do not worry, Rose. I do not bite unless you wish me to.

Brandi Gillilan

#13. My names were hand-me-downs too: girl, the creature, or, most often, you there.

Emma Donoghue

#14. Through the Social Enterprise Demonstration Fund, we are connecting high-potential social enterprises with the resources they need to grow and create jobs. This not only contributes to a fairer, more prosperous province; it also helps position Ontario as a global impact investment leader.

Brad Duguid

#15. You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

Kristen Stewart

#16. The script's always important, but there are some things that have come out in the past year that, when we read them, everyone was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be the next best thing!" Then the movie falls completely flat on its face.

Douglas Booth

#17. She says affection is all very well being imagined, like a romantic fancy, but marriage should be based on practical purposes in order to last longer.

Aya Ling

#18. Natural isn't the same as right. Normal isn't the same as moral. Everyone deserves a say in what happens to the world.

Audrey Greathouse

#19. The biggest single-celled organisms in the world. They live beneath the Antarctic ice. And as they grow, they take grains of sand from their environment and glue them together to form hard outer skins.

Neal Stephenson

#20. Anyone who abandon's their children should be hung, by their toenails while awaiting flesh eating ants or some other painful flesh eating hungry creature to consume them. Slowly and painfully ...

A.R. Von

#21. Why spend your whole life on the high seas looking for treasure,' Peter asked, talking to the clouds as he scaled a rope up what remained of the half-crumbled mast, 'when you could have a promised pay check in exchange for all the life you'd live between nine-and-five.

Audrey Greathouse

#22. The late Mavis Gallant told the Paris Review that writing is like "a love affair: the beginning is the best part. I write every day. It is not a burden. It is the way I live.

Mavis Gallant

#23. To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#24. The man chuckled. "You would do well to speak kindly of her. She will be your Queen before long.
"Over my dead body," Rose snapped.

Brandi Gillilan

#25. Their meal was illuminated by torches, which Gwen found were utterly without fire. What the children called torches were really just small platforms on tall, wooden poles. The reason they radiated light was because fairies had flown up to them to waltz and glow on the tiny dance floors.

Audrey Greathouse

#26. Elimae was a magician with a key in her mouth, a foreign language, a matryoshka doll: uncomplicated on the surface, but with a dozen secret selves hidden inside. She thought I didn't notice her, but she's all I did notice.

Kirsty Logan

#27. Under the thousand crystal candelabras I danced with ten elderly gentlemen who had nothing to say but did not let that stop them. I answered only, Indeed and Oh yes and Do you think so?

Emma Donoghue

#28. My body - I do not fall to pieces and be reduced to a big pile of lovable mush over a woman, never!

A.R. Von

#29. And you must tell the child the legends I told you
as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people ...

Betty Smith