The idea of fairyland fascinates me because it's one of those things, like mermaids and dragons, that doesn't really exist, but everyone knows about it anyway. Fairyland lies only in the eye of the beholder who is usually a fabricator of fantasy. So what good is it, this enchanted, fickle land which in some tales bodes little good to humans and, in others, is the land of peace and perpetual summer where everyone longs to be? Perhaps it's just a glimpse of our deepest wishes and greatest fears, the farthest boundaries of our imaginations. We go there because we can; we come back because we must. What we see there becomes our tales.
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Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA 'Exculpatory' is in the eye of the beholder. ANDREW BREITBART You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely-mingled element... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what i... ISHMAEL BEAH When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL Faith is in the eye of the beholder. TILDA SWINTON Threat is in the eye of the beholder. MOHAMED ELBARADEI Normal is in the eye of the beholder. WHOOPI GOLDBERG Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. OLIVER PLATT Healthy is in the eye of the beholder. YOTAM OTTOLENGHI We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and... TERESA OF AVILA She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Each day before the end of eve she sought her lover, nor would him leave, until the stars ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... 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MAAS I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If we see a speck in a brother's eye, we must first see if there is a log in our own eye; perhaps th... DAVID WATSON Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacen... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH All people are, at heart, egocentric. We exist at the center of our own little universes. We believe... PETER DAVID Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder. LEW WALLACE Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Enchanted castle corridors are the right place to "get in" research on fairy tales - it's a fairy ta... PENINA MEZEI There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Man is a breathing DUST, while woman is a breathing BONE SOTONYE ANGA Everyone knows what everyone else is going to do in this league. We were successful in doing what we... BO OVERTON Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know ... L.M. MONTGOMERY You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a... NAJWA ZEBIAN The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ... HENRY HON This is just what we needed. We needed to be home in the friendly confines of our arena, in our city... DAVE DICKERSON When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see ... JOHN O'DONOHUE Life is a relentless expulsion from where we come from and an ongoing deportation to alien realms. W... FRANCO SANTORO The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really ... SUZY KASSEM Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the o... G.K. CHESTERTON The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS We just do what we're told, because Coach Kane is a great coach. Our strengths are we want to be goo... JAMES HANCOCK It's a fine line between success and failure. You need to be ahead of the curve ... just not too far... GREG KAVANDER We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA If you want to feel the life and the body of great men who are long gone, go to their tombs or monum... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or p... EUGENE DELACROIX I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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PATRICIA MARX I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alo... PATRICIA MARX Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name ... PATRICIA MARX Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is. PATRICIA MARX For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes. PATRICIA MARX I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and se... PATRICIA MARX I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality. PATRICIA MARX Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed. PATRICIA MARX The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism. PATRICIA MARX It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even fiv... PATRICIA MARX Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of ... PATRICIA MARX Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists cl... PATRICIA MARX 'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of char... PATRICIA MARX Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's ... PATRICIA MARX One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels ... PATRICIA MARX New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just bec... PATRICIA MARX Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, wha... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections. PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read. PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end. PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and b... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers. PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended fam... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I do... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything. PATRICIA KAAS When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life. PATRICIA KAAS People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career. PATRICIA KAAS When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time i... PATRICIA KAAS I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after,... PATRICIA KAAS Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible. PATRICIA KAAS Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our ent... PATRICIA IRELAND And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fac... PATRICIA IRELAND We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would... PATRICIA IRELAND We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the ... PATRICIA IRELAND We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets reall... PATRICIA IRELAND They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney... PATRICIA IRELAND Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would ... PATRICIA IRELAND