Straw into Gold Quotes

“Off with our nightgowns, and on with the silks and taffetas! Velvet and damask and lace like foam! Buttoned gloves, coral beads, pearl rings, diamond bracelets! Perfumes, powders, gilt tiaras and satin dancing shoes!”
― Hilary McKay, Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales

“Gems and jewels and sparkly things. Perfumes and powders and rouges and ribbons. Waltzes, polkas and polonaises. And princes for partners, And most of all, they liked satin dancing shoes.”
― Hilary McKay, Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales

“You surely won't turn him into a frog?" asked the Queen. (For this had been known to happen in royal families before.)
"Certainly not!" said the Dust Grey Fairy. "I'm sure he would enjoy it, lurking around the lily leaves waiting to be kissed, but he would learn no manners at all!"
"Nor send him to sleep for a hundred years?"
"That's for girls only," said the Dust Grey Fairy. "Boys are lazy enough as it is."
"True, true," admitted the Queen.”
― Hilary McKay, Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales

“It isn't the story, because it has ended too soon, of how Granny returned the huntsman to the village in her wheelbarrow, and went back to her happy life in the forest as a semi-retired smuggler, with Diamond for company.
Nor is it the ridiculous mixed-up tale told by the huntsman of a wolf in bed, and Granny eaten, and Red Riding Hood saved by his own brave self, rushing in with an axe.”
― Hilary McKay, Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales

“Far away can be too far away, when the wrong people are left behind.”
― Hilary McKay, Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales