Poisoned Apples Quotes

#1. Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.

Seanan McGuire

#2. When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

Stephen King

#3. And Tiffany knew that if a witch started thinking of anyone as "just" anything, that would be the first step on a well-worn path that could lead to, oh, to poisoned apples, spinning wheels, and a too-small stove ... and to pain, and terror, and horror and the darkness.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Think of the prequels like snap shots of a magical land you're about to visit soon. I like to think of them as poisoned apples ... once you taste them, you'll never see fairy tales in the same light again.

Cameron Jace

#5. The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.

Lord George Gordon

#6. The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

M. Scott Peck

#7. to be a Cubs fan is both a birthright and a curse.

Jason Diamond

#8. Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

Pauline Kael

#9. Did you order it to kidnap me? Or was that its own idea? Sergei stepped closer, fighting the urge to punch the man and then check that he was all right. None of those responses made any sense.

Aleksandr Voinov

#10. Life is just there, to be made the best of, until it isn't. And that's all right, too.

Timothy Hallinan

#11. There are two apples, one is green and the other is red. Which apple would the wise man choose? The answer is: I'll take the one you didn't choose. You see, you are the fool here, because I poisoned the first apple!

Jarod Kintz

#12. People who are hard on others are usually very hard on themselves, and the pain they inflict on others is a reflection of the pain they inflict on themselves.

Bryant McGill

#13. I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in which they could be improved. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

Philip Pullman