“The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.”

“Because home is where your heart is. And one heart can work wonders when it's beating strongly. And the sweet fairy tales can become true”

“The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.”

“It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, butit was the only one we had.”

“It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list to such tales, his soul doth say, 'put by thy poor little likings and seek to do likewise.' Truly, one may not do as nobly one's self, but in the striving one is better...”

“There are no endings, and there are no fairy tales. But the pages keep being written. Time soldiers on.”