Author: Maia Chance

Cites

• Gabrielle-Suzanne Bardot Villeneuve (1)
  • IN: Beauty, Beast and Belladonna (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Beware of allowing yourself to be prejudiced by appearances.
    FROM: Beauty and the Beast, (1740), Fairy Tale, France
• Mark Twain (1)
  • IN: Snow White Red-Handed (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The great deeps of a boundless forest have a beguiling and impressive charm in any country: but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. They have peopled all that region with gnomes, and dwarfs, and all sorts of mysterious and uncanny creatures. At the time I am writing of, I had been reading so much of this literature that sometimes I was not sure but I was beginning to believe in the gnomes and fairies as realities.
    FROM: A Tramp Abroad, (1880), Book, US
• Henry David Thoreau (1)
  • IN: Cinderella Six Feet Under (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life... would be like a fairy tale.
    FROM: NULL, (1854), NULL, US
• Anita Loos (1)
  • IN: Come Hell or Highball (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I've always loved high style in low company.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• P. G. Wodehouse (1)
  • IN: Teetotaled (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everything in life that's any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
    FROM: The Girl in Blue, (1971), Novel, UK