#fairytales

This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life... is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love... does not conquer all. ↗

— George Huang

#good-guys #hope #lies #life #love

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics. ↗

— Mark Millar

#comics #crime #fairytales #i #into

Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh and truth-bearing light. ↗

— Leonard S. Marcus

#fantasy #fiction #on-fiction #imagination

Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#fairytales #stories #dreams

For a momente she [Gretel] stopped and considered following the rain's advice. But then she shook her head. "You're being foolish," Gretel told herself. "Rain can't talk." No, of course it can't. The moon can eat children, and fingers can open doors, and people's heads can be put back on. But rain? Talk? Don't be ridiculous. Good thinking, Gretel dear. Good thinking. ↗

— Adam Gidwitz

#humor #humor

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#fairytales #growing-up #age

Fairy-child, if only you should take my hand, I would show you things beyond your wildest dreams.” My expression makes him laugh. “What’s that from?” “Some book I read.” “I should have known.” I pause. “Did she follow?” “How could she resist? Of course, she ended up devoured. ↗

— Kristen Hubbard

#wanderlove #dreams

Fairytales are fake, life does'nt end in "Happily Ever After ↗

— TheEmoQueen

#life #life