“Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.”
William Shakespeare
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C.S. Lewis
“When a book can transport you out of your life and straight into it's story, you know that the author did something very right.”
Jennifer Le
“I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library: Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book, Red Fairy Book, and so on, probably down to the Puce or Chartreuse fairy tales.”
Beverly Cleary
“For seldom shall she hear a taleSo sad, so tender, and so true.”
William Shenstone
“The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.”
Clive Barker
“(Man's) history is a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin”
Washington Irving
