“You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.”
Kate Morton
The Forgotten Garden
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.”
Kate Morton
The Forgotten Garden
“A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.”
Deb Caletti
Stay
“This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.”
Terry Pratchett
Monstrous Regiment
“...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?”
Kate Morton
The Forgotten Garden
“In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.”
Paulo Coelho
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept