“We are all searching for the fairy tale. When it doesn't come, we try to create it.”
“That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.”
“When we are young, we are read fairy tales. When we are old, we are read religious tales.”
“Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.”
“When we think about fairy tales, we think about happily ever afters, forgetting the darkness that stories beginning with "once upon a time" so often contain.I tried to protect Shay from that darkness. But there was no way to shield her from the truth: Life is not a fairy tale.”
“Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.”