„He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.“

„A fairy tale in terms of blood—a world in anamorphosis—a perversion of all rationality.… It’s unthinkable, senseless, like black magic and sorcery and thaumaturgy. It’s downright demented.“

—  S. S. Van Dine, livro The Bishop Murder Case

Ch 1
The Bishop Murder Case (1929)

„She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as the motes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.“

—  Max Beerbohm English writer 1872 - 1956

Fonte: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. II

„A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.“

—  Fawn M. Brodie American historian and biographer 1915 - 1981

No Man Knows My History, ch. 19 (1945)

„As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, livro As Palavras Que nunca Te Direi

Fonte: Message in a Bottle

„Percy hated tests. Since he'd lost his memory, his whole life was one big fill-in-the-blank. He was _____, from _____. He felt like _____, and if the monsters caught him, he'd be _____.“

—  Rick Riordan, livro The Son of Neptune

Variante: Since Percy’d lost his memory, his whole life was one big fillin-the-blank. He was____________________, from____________________. He felt like
____________________, and if the monsters
caught him, he’d be____________________.
Fonte: The Son of Neptune

„The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after“

—  Lois Lowry, livro Number the Stars

Fonte: Number the Stars

„One of the things he'd always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.“

—  Cassandra Clare, livro City of Fallen Angels

Fonte: City of Fallen Angels

„It depends only on the weakness of our organs and of our self-excitement (Selbstberuhrung), that we do not see ourselves in a Fairy-world. All Fabulous Tales (Mahrchen) are merely dreams of that home world, which is everywhere and nowhere.“

—  Novalis German poet and writer 1772 - 1801

Contexto: It depends only on the weakness of our organs and of our self-excitement (Selbstberuhrung), that we do not see ourselves in a Fairy-world. All Fabulous Tales (Mahrchen) are merely dreams of that home world, which is everywhere and nowhere. The higher powers in us, which one day as Genies, shall fulfil our will, are, for the present, Muses, which refresh us on our toilsome course with sweet remembrances.

„Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.“

—  Richard Siken American poet 1967

„The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe. In the end, Religion will kill us all.“

—  Ed Krebs American photographer and musician 1951

Had Enough Religious Bullshit http://www.edkrebs.com/herb/, Ed Krebs' site.

„In a fantastic world, the fantastic had become merely ordinary.“

—  Edmund Cooper, livro All Fools' Day

All Fools' Day (1966)

„Caine was no longer the icon of evil, the Enemy of God, the author of all the world's ills. He had become simply what he was: a ruthless, amoral man, now beaten--crushed by the world, just like any other.“

—  Matthew Stover, livro Blade of Tyshalle

Blade of Tyshalle (2001)

„If Hawking’s world is “small,” well, at least what he found was testable, and might be true. Father de Souza’s claims are either untestable or have already been shown to be doubtful, and he has no evidence for any of them. In requiring people to believe fairy tales, de Souza’s world is not just small, but nonexistent.“

—  Jerry Coyne American biologist 1949

" Catholic priest says that Hawking, while smart, didn’t solve the biggest questions of the universe https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/catholic-priest-says-that-hawking-while-smart-didnt-solve-the-biggest-questions-of-the-universe/" March 22, 2018

„If she could have anything in the world, he'd asked her, what would it be?

She'd answered that one without hesitation: a best friend. She hastily added, He'd smiled faintly. he'd thought but not said.“

—  Karen Marie Moning author 1964

Fonte: Spell of the Highlander

„If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.
But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.“

—  Edwin Lefèvre, livro Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Fonte: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter VIII, p. 89

„Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.“

—  Hermann Hesse, livro Demian

Fonte: Demian (1919), p. 180
Contexto: Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world. Abraxas does not take exception to any of your thoughts, any of your dreams. Never forget that. But he will leave you once you've become blameless and normal. Then he will leave you and look for a different vessel in which to brew his thoughts.

„He'd never been all that good at math, but he was a goddamned world-famous expert in getting dumped.“

—  John Green, livro An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, p. 60
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

„Why do I make movies? I'm looking for terra incognita, a land on which no filmmaker has yet set foot, a planet where no director has planted his flag of conquest, a world that exists only in fairy tales.“

—  Karel Zeman Czech film director, artist and animator 1910 - 1989

Proč vůbec točím filmy? Hledám Zemi nikoho, ostrov, na který ještě nevstoupila noha filmařova, planetu, na které ještě žádný režisér nevztyčil vlajku objevitele, svět, který existuje jen v pohádkách.
Quoted on the website of the Karel Zeman Museum in Prague (in English http://www.muzeumkarlazemana.cz/en/karel-zeman/quotes and Czech http://www.muzeumkarlazemana.cz/cz/karel-zeman/citaty).

„To Honore de Balzac, it seemed that humankind was on the eve of a great struggle; the forces are there, he insisted: I feel in myself a life so luminous that it might enlighten a world, and yet I am shut up in a sort of mineral.“

—  Marilyn Ferguson American writer 1938 - 2008

The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Eleven, Spiritual Adventure: Connection to the Source