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#1

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#2

“If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: fairy-tales

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#3

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#4

“The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.”
― W.H. Auden

tags: fairy-tales

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#5

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#6

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories

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#7

“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: fantasy

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#8

“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: fandom, fanfiction, fantasy, humour

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#9

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”
― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

tags: fantasy, love, monster

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#10

“Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.”
― Walt Disney

tags: fantasy, time

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#11

“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

tags: fantasy

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#12

“ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED.
He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.”
― Richelle Mead

tags: adrian-ivashkov, fantasy, rose-hathaway, vampire, young-adult

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#13

“I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

tags: fantasy, fiction, humor, young-adult

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#14

“You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
― Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland: Based on the Motion Picture Directed by Tim Burton

tags: fantasy, movie-quote

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#15

“Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.”
― Noel Fielding

tags: fantasy, humor

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#16

“Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.”
― Greenhaven Press

tags: fairy-tales, fantasy

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