#tales

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

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#fairy #fairy tale #fairy tales #great #i

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful. ↗

— Jack Vance

#had #his #imagination #smith #talented

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character. ↗

— Lily Collins

#character #costumes #disney #every #every night

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#classic #fairy #fairy tales #fairytales #i

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

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. ↗

— Paul Henderson

#east #fairy #fairy tales #folklore #known

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy. ↗

— John Howe

#dragons #fairy #fairy tales #fantasy #much

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