#fair

He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life. ↗

— Alethea Kontis

#enchanted #fairy-tales #love #love

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#love #marriage #women #love

We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for the taking, where men rescued the people they loved instead of abandoning them. A place where, no matter how bad things looked at that moment, there would always be a happy ending. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#men

Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#reckless #men

Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry.” “Leo, that’s Snow White,” Piper said. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#gaea #leo-valdez #piper-mclean #nature

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get. ↗

— Robert Buettner

#fighting #human-nature #human-superiority #humanity #unfairness

Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps no coincidence that nature in the Cinderella stories facilitates transformation, for nature itself is a changeable thing, from season to season, from a sunny day to rain, from an egg to a flying bird in a matter of weeks. (Source: "The Nature of Cinderella".) ↗

— Marie Rutkoski

#fairy-tales #stories #telling-tales #writing #nature

There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like my father, ruthlessly obedient to their idea of fair play. ↗

— Philip Roth

#father #human-nature #men

Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#fairies #god #gods #i-was-so-full #religion

Maybe one did have to be smart in order to kill. ↗

— Markelle Grabo

#fairies #fantasy #ramsey #death