“The public wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them and everything would turn to gold. Little did they realise that the individual is crucifying herself inside because she didn't think she was good enough.” ThinkingLittlesEnoughWantedTurnsIndividualGoldFairyGood EnoughRealisingPrincessFairy Princess Author:Princess Diana
“My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.” WorldGivingMightMotherGoldWeightIndiaSmellMythTalesChainsFairyFairy TaleLinkedFeathersKnotsArabiaLightersDrawersWeight Of The World Author:Anne Lamott
“I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.” WorldWayFeltRealizingPathRichLateGoldDustMy WayFairyToo LateOver ItVagabondsPavingFairy Dust Book:Saving Fish From Drowning Source: Saving Fish From Drowning
“This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the gold shiny one. Or even the quite impressive silver one. What you're supposed to do is choose the dull little lead one, and then there's a flash of light and it turns into a mountain of jewels” KnowsLittlesLightTurnsThreeMountainGoldTestsTalesFairyDullSilverFairy TaleFlashJewelsImpressiveCaskets Author:Sophie Kinsella
“Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had somehow got it into their heads that each fairy lugged around a pot of gold with him wherever he went. While it was true that LEP had a ransom fund, because of its officers' high-risk occupation, no human had ever taken a chunk of it yet. This didn't stop the Irish population in general from skulking around rainbows, hoping to win the supernatural lottery.” WorldHumansWinningTakenRiskCrazyTheoryGoldPopulationFairyFundOccupationPotOfficersRainbowLotteryChunksRansomHigh RiskArtemis FowlPot Of Gold Book:Artemis Fowl Source: Artemis Fowl
“It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didn’t burst from lamps, and talking fish didn’t bargain for their lives. In all the world, there was only one place humans could get wishes: Brimstone’s shop. And there was only one currency he accepted. It wasn’t gold, or riddles, or kindness, or any other fairy-tale nonsense, and no, it wasn’t souls, either. It was weirder than any of that. It was teeth.” WorldHumansSoulWishWaitingTalkingKindnessGoldRewardsFishesAcceptedTalesTeethBreadFairyShopsNonsenseWitchFairy TaleCurrencyTravelerLampsBargainsRiddleCrossroadsGenies Author:Laini Taylor
“She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?” LittlesStillsSometimesDreamWantedBehindsReturnGoldTalesDustFairyFairy TaleTokensLashesEyelidsInkheartGold Dust Author:Cornelia Funke
“But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.” LooksEndsDreamKnownFantasyForeverPromiseGoldFinanceFairyRainbow Author:Terry Pratchett
“Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.” MenHe ManGoldNewspapersTalesFairyTouchedFairy TaleClamor Book:Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children Source: Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children
“And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.” ShouldSleepPoorRichAngelGoldFairyPalaces Author:Rose Fyleman