#fair

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#bogeyman #dragon #dragons #fairy-tales #inspirational

He’s jealous because lions are better hunters.”--Monroe “Are you compensating for something, Monroe?” --Bastian ↗

— Bethany Averie

#fairy-tales #fantasy #paranormal #romance #love

Happily Single" is recognizing that you don’t need or want to be rescued from your life by a handsome prince because your life is pretty awesome, as is. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#fairytales #happily-ever-after #happily-single #happiness #happy

Once when I asked you if you still loved your wife, you said, Love leaves the back door open. Later, you said, Love like a hospital gown opens at the back. And you slipped out. ↗

— Joan Connor

#love #lovers #short-stories #love

You don't love me "Johnny", you don't even care for me. You're selfish and egoistic! I may not be the best but I give my all in loving you. You always treat me less, you even treat me like your rest. I'm not happy of what's going on but I won't be happy either if I'll go. I feel like I'm walking on a wire, always cautious, always conscious and sometimes nervous! I can't be who I am, I can't do what I do. I can't say what I feel! This isn't fair, this isn't right. But what is fair and what is not if feeling this hurt brings me close to you! ↗

— Gina Marie G.

#pain #unfair #unrequited-love #love

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying. ↗

— Sonya Hartnett

#hardship #inspirational #life #inspirational

When you’re late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love’s-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don’t recover from. ↗

— Seanan McGuire

#love

I will put your skill to the test, but if you do not pass, you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song. ↗

— Brothers Grimm - THE MASTER THIEF

#marriage

Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor. In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . . But first, you hear the crackle of their wings. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fairies #frost #winter #wonder #wonderland

Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fairy-tale #men