Green Fairy Book

Famous quotes containing the words green, fairy and/or book:

    “My salad days,
    When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
    To say as I said then!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A child... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change into a most helpful friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be changed from a menace into a desirable companion.”
    —Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)

    “There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don’t see them.”
    —Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)