Quotes About Retellings

#1. As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'

Kate Forsyth

#2. It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral point.

Isobelle Carmody

#3. Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale.

Marie Rutkoski

#4. I love fairy tale retellings and mash-ups.

Sarah J. Maas

#5. 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

#6. And what good is a voice when so few will listen?

Stacey Jay

#7. 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

#8. I have to believe it's right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend.

Betsy Cornwell

#9. Things hurt, and don't hurt, and hurt again.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#10. Some stories aren't meant to be told. The more they get told, the more they change from what they once were, worn down and smooth like pieces of sea glass too beautiful to have ever been broken bottles.

Caren Gussoff

#11. Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.

Priya Ardis

#12. Lirralei was a girl of storm
winds and thorns, the musk of the wild rose and the flight of the falcon.

Rosamund Hodge

#13. The peach siding created a gorgeous contrast to the stucco walls and the dark-brown roof tiles - a fairytale house in a fairytale suburban neighborhood. She rolled her eyes. Too bad life had been anything but.

Katherine McIntyre

#14. Someday my prince will come," she lamented softly, "too fast.

Melinda DuChamp

#15. Gisela looked more frightened now than she had before-frightened for him rather than for herself if he read the expression correctly. He looked her in the eye. I won't let you down. I will save you.

Melanie Dickerson

#16. Thirty-two steps until Haley Tremaine entered hell. Thirty-two steps until she walked into the smell of alcohol and burned microwaveable meals, into a place where fear overwhelmed.

Krystal Wade

#17. She started life with a number, not a name. Class: S, No. 13295. She has them memorized by rote, though nobody ever calls her that. The Scientists feel foolish addressing her in long, bewildering strings of alphanumerics. They have told her so themselves. To save time, they simply call her Snow.

Nenia Campbell

#18. Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?

Priya Ardis

#19. Either I'm changing very quickly, and everything is standing still, or I'm the one standing still and everything is changing around me. Either way, I'm out of joint with the world.

Bernie Su

#20. Yeah, but what we need are some fighters who know how to take down a wolf. I know three."

"If you are going to get the Pigs, you'll need backup. They're not to be trifled with.

K.M. Randall

#21. Just how many soldiers do you think I can fight on my own?" Alice asked.
"As many as necessary," Hatcher said. "I believe in you, Alice."
She felt for the first time that she wanted to kiss him, that she wanted to know what it was like when she chose it. So she did.

Christina Henry

#22. My parents lie somewhere beneath the snow, buried with my mortal life.

Vicki L. Weavil

#23. He had danced with fair maidens before, but Odette was different. She was graceful and beautiful, but there was something in her eyes and in the things she said, an intelligence and a boldness that belied her quiet demeanor.

Melanie Dickerson

#24. Promises are like silly jokes, told around a table when the food is good and no one has anything to lose by telling a lie or two - lies should have been a synonym for the word 'promise' in dictionaries, but only a few people knew it.

Cameron Jace

#25. Magic. For the first time, she heard the word and felt a twist in her stomach, a little thrill. Having that kind of power, that kind of influence... it was a wicked thing.

Rhiannon Thomas

#26. Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.

Cameron Dokey

#27. He's so powerful. Who knows maybe he's advanced past eating

Priya Ardis

#28. You remember it all now," Hatcher said, and it wasn't a question.
"Yes," she said. She was beyond weeping for the child she once was. "It is, more or less, what you would expect. Except for the part where I escaped. Nobody expected that.

Christina Henry

#29. The world needs more people like you, Odette." She smiled to lighten the mood."And you, Jorgen Hortman.

Melanie Dickerson

#30. My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac
you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.

Priya Ardis

#31. Our story was just like Romeo and Juliet. We were just two kids falling in love. But we didn't have that old Shakespearean insta-kind-of-love. Ours had a lot more to it.

Melissa M. Futrell

#32. His hands wrapped around her upper arms, holding her gently. You are even more beautiful when you dance.

Melanie Dickerson

#33. At just ten years old, I told myself not to fall in love. Not again. Not ever.

Melissa M. Futrell

#34. You are brave and strong and good, noble and kind. I love you and I think you're ...

Melanie Dickerson

#35. And, they would still be alive today ... If they hadn't died, that is

Rotraut Susanne Berner

#36. He bent lower to whisper in her ear, I love you, queen of beauty and love.

Melanie Dickerson

#37. What you're about to read is based on true events. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. And it will break your heart. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Melissa M. Futrell