Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.


Mollie King

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My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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For most people life is not a fairy tale, it is an adventure.
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A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.
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My parents told me any and every fairy-tale from all around the world. I usually gravitated towards ...
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Who am I kidding? This isn’t a fairy tale. It’s my life.
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Once in a blue moon life is a fairy tale.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers
HANS ANDERSEN
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers
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Stop expecting fairness. Life isn't a fairy tale.
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This story about that makes absolutely no sense. This is a story likened to a fairy tale in their ma...
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Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
NELLY SACHS
This is not your mom’s fairy tale.'

From a review of my novel, 'Course of Mirrors.
ASHEN VENEMA
The fireplace is warm nook Penina Mezei’s house in fairy tale in which the "fairy-tale-in Jukebox"...
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For me, my life is a journey.
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Sometimes life asks us to make more serious choices than whether or not to believe a fairy tale
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I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
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The peach siding created a gorgeous contrast to the stucco walls and the dark-brown roof tiles—a f...
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Largely a bluff. A fairy tale.
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Not exactly a fairy-tale ending, was it? But it was close.
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Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering...
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The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.
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I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
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Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.
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Pain and suffering makes you realise what is life.
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In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exis...
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My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.
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Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or...
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Why can't love be a fairy tale?
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It's like a fairy tale. . . on crack!
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Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
UNKNOWN
Once in awhile, Right in the middle of an ordinary life, Love gives us a fairy tale.
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ah, life—
the thing
that happens
to us
while we’re off
somewhere else AMANDA LOVELACE
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every ...
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Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy t...
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Getting to wear Chanel is my version of a fairy tale. Not that I would wear it every day - my style ...
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It's a fairy tale come true for him.
HINES WARD
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
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Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was...
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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of ...
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Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.
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East of the sun and west of the moon.
EDITH PATTOU
I want to have the fairy-tale life with a wife and three or four kids. It will come.
CRIS JUDD
As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.
LILY JAMES
My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE
The fairy tale of film—created with the magic of animation—is the modern equivalent of the great...
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[As in the fairy tale,] Chicken Little ... The sky is falling.
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ANDREW LANG
And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.
ANDREW LANG
Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
ERIN MORGENSTERN
What Grimm fairy tale featured apiarian morphing humans?
SOLANGE NICOLE
'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.
MARK HAMILL
And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I ...
MIKE MYERS
Fairy Tale: A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.
UNKNOWN
I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a...
SELENA GOMEZ
Tolkien reintroduced the world of fairy tale to a new audience. It was a very traditional image of f...
TOM SHIPPEY
at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
SUSAN WIGGS
You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.
TOBA BETA
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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'Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but n...
MAX LANDIS
Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbring...
JOHN STAMOS
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -King John. Act iii. S...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of lif...
DR. FREDERICK LEBOYER
Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps becau...
KENNETH BRANAGH
'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fair...
NANCY WERLIN
Did I ever tell you the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one?" she asked him,...
ERIN MCCARTHY
Children are more able to objectively synthesize a story involving vampires, monsters, or dragons du...
JOSEPH ABBRUSCATO
There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard ...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger...
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
ALICE HOFFMAN
The fairy-tale continues, it's unbelievable what they did. It's a true miracle,
OTTO REHHAGEL
I couldn't be more excited for her. It's really a fairy-tale story.
GUNNAR BROLINSON
Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human being...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
ALEX FLINN
(fairy tale).
i wanna tell you a joke
but it will be like the frog finds the princess ZELDA GIN
The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips...
EMMA DONOGHUE
You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here’s a hint—ask yourself who wrote them. I assure yo...
RACHEL COHN
Make it a human war,' she said fiercely. 'You're the first not to be deceived by my looks. Oh God! T...
ALFRED BESTER
Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing....
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A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take ...
STEPHEN KING
And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must ...
STEPHEN KING
Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...
STEPHEN KING
As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I...
A.S. KING
As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it arou...
A.S. KING
I see it as symbolic. The label no longer fits. His emotional parsimoniousness just got sucked away ...
A.S. KING
you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
STEPHEN KING
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor...
STEPHEN KING
You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is col...
STEPHEN KING
Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed.
STEPHEN KING
You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose t...
STEPHEN KING
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
STEPHEN KING
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
STEPHEN KING
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
STEPHEN KING
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
STEPHEN KING
Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
STEPHEN KING
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eightie...
FLORENCE KING
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right...
FLORENCE KING
Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.
STEPHEN KING
Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced...
FLORENCE KING
Please, we can get along here.
RODNEY KING
In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For p...
FLORENCE KING
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th...
FLORENCE KING
Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
DOUG KING
America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, ...
FLORENCE KING
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pa...
FLORENCE KING
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is...
STEPHEN KING