#fairy tale

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad. ↗

— Joe Wright

#bad #dark #dark side #fairy #fairy tales

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#back #chain #chains #drawer #excite

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us. ↗

— Frederick Leboyer

#beginning #burns #end #exists #experience

I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#bloody #brothers #ever #ever after #fairy

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#best #different #different sort #fairy #fairy tale

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#elevated #even #fairy #fairy tales #i

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales. ↗

— Mike Myers

#actress #characters #check #different #different characters

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. ↗

— Eugene O'Neill

#fairy #fairy tale #kingdom #lives #lost

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come. ↗

— Ravi Shankar

#ambition #animation #chances #come #deep

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale. ↗

— January Jones

#fairy tale #i #just #keep #mind