Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.