#tales

That's why crazy people are so dangerous. You think they're nice until they're chaining you up in the garage. ↗

— Michael Buckley

#insanity #kooks #fairy-tales

There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger. ↗

— Elizabeth Leiknes

#first-sentence #suicide #first-sentence

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#fairy #fairy tales #i #know #magic

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#fairy tales #fall #gifts #heaven #only

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#interesting #interesting people #languages #latin #like

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. ↗

— Marie Curie

#child #confronting #fairy #fairy tales #him

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune. ↗

— Marie de France

#how #know #must #tales #tell

If this were a fairy tale, this would be the part where the fishboy appears and Diana shoots him through the heart. Because he is a tragic hero, he's our fucking Gatsby, and he lived for his fish and he has to die for his fish. He would never let my fake authority, condoning his abandonment, making up rules about what's okay just to save his life, convince him to give up his family. He would never leave. He would know that without him, none of us will be as good. Me, without a friend; and the fish, without a brother; and the island, without a story; and Diana, without her something real, we will all be a little bit less than we were before we knew him. So he wouldn't leave. Not until I could come with him. And I have never been less able to leave than I am now. But this isn't a fairy tale, and he doesn't appear. We stand here for a long time. He really left. Because it was all that we could do. ↗

— Hannah Moskowitz

#gatsby #family

The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling me to tap into the unconscious. ↗

— Virginia Lee

#fairy-tales #legends #myth #art

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