“Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation.” ThinkingWorldWonderfulMagicJourneyChildhoodAwarenessAdventurePhotographyIllusionAdultsAppearanceTalesManageRealmsFairyFairy TaleToysMultitudesVariationNever EndingSimulationGreat Adventure Author:Luigi Ghirri
“Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.” ThinkingChildrenHomeMotherWaitingMinutesAdventureFineMomWindowTalesFairyFairy TaleDarlingStay At Home Book:The Time Traveler's Wife Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.” WorldMadeLawBornWalksStepsStrangeAdventureSupremeTalesFairyFairy TaleTrapsSplendidStrange Laws Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal." Discovering that the modern world can still contain the wonder and strangeness of a fairy tale is part of what my novels are about.” WorldHumansSaidStillsWonderBoysNovelForeverModernAdventureHeroNormalEndureTalesFairyFairy TaleDiscoveringModern WorldMy HeroStrangeness Author:Regina Doman
“She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes. She liked pirate stories, too, but most of all she loved books that had at least a knight or a dragon or a fairy in them. She was always on the dragon's side by the way.” WayBookStoriesNamesSidesDarknessAdventureKingsHeroAncientTalesFairyDragonsKnightsPirateBrightnessArthurKing ArthurAncient Gods Book:Inkheart Source: Inkheart
“Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other.” MenWorldMindHumansWellsTwoDreamTogetherRaceKnowingAdventureBoundariesAliensMortalsUncertaintyDawnFairyStraightforward Author:Colin Thubron
“The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure -- the future wild women of America. I couldn't help thinking that these little girls who love fairies deserve something lively.” ThinkingLittlesHelpingAmericaGirlAdventureLoversDeserveLibraryFairyAdoreLivelyNature LoveNature LoverWild WomenPrettiness Author:Laura Amy Schlitz
“The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one of these tales, or even to read it twice over. But let them have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times, heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales in which they are never roughly pulled up by the impossible —even where all is impossible, and they know it, and yet believe.” KnowsBelieveChildrenImaginationImpossibleLandAdventureSceneTalesFairyHeroicFairy TaleDelicious Author:Charlotte Mason
“William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told of tragedies and of people in trouble. Terence and Mark Twain told cosmic stories, Dickens told melodramatic ones, Plutarch told histories and Hans Christian Andersen told fairy tales. But Shakespeare told every kind of story – comedy, tragedy, history, melodrama, adventure, love stories and fairy tales – and each of them so well that they have become immortal. In all the world of storytelling he has become the greatest name.” PeopleMenWorldWellsKindWarStoriesChristianNamesKnownComedyTroubleAdventureTragedyMarkLove StoryTalesStorytellingFairyRemarkableImmortalCosmicFairy TaleStorytellerDickensMelodrama Author:Marchette Chute