Maggie Stiefvater quote: "My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive."

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spen...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER

Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no l...
NICOLE KRAUSS

In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exis...
DIANA WYNNE JONES

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mothe...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, bu...
JOHNNY MERCER

There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped...
NEIL GAIMAN

Once upon a time there was a

Once upon a time there was a

Once upon a time the...
N.K. JEMISIN

She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes.” ~O...
KIMBERLY KINRADE

Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, hap...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV

Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how t...
BEN MENDELSOHN

Once upon a time, you were the cream from the stream of my dreams. Once upon a time, you were the ra...
RICHARD ADJI

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Once upon a time, I did not live in Shady Pines. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon ...
ELIZABETH SCOTT

Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part ...
R.J. ANDERSON

Once upon a time, there was a dumb student... today he is web designer...
VIJAYRAJ BHATT

He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. H...
DONALD MILLER

And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed ...
CHARLES PERRAULT

C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But...
ROY L. PICKERING JR.

Once upon a time, they say, there was a girl...there was a boy...there was a person who was in troub...
TERRI WINDLING

Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams ‘If there was a God, He would no...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treadin...
DICK CAVETT

That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curt...
DAKOTA FANNING

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
ED BRADLEY

It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went a...
LUCAS SCOTT

She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkne...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Jermaine was a beautiful boy, end of story. My beautiful boy. My beautiful boy.
DANIEL PELLETIER

She was infamous once upon a time. She's legendary now. The girl is a definite force to be reckoned ...
REBECCA HARRIS

Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Everything bad that could happen to a teenage boy, which is what he was at the time, happened to him...
GREGG OLSEN

He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.
KHALED HOSSEINI

This was a boy who had lost everything. Finally we persuaded him to take a basketball. We told him h...
IDA SCHOSSOW

It was such a pivotal time in Elvis' life; he was just a poor boy from Tupelo, Miss. That's ...
DRAKE MILLIGAN

Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he sa...
EUGENE JARECKI

My lord was never sane, but he was my love, once. He always will be, somewhere. Wherever it is that ...
SEANAN MCGUIRE

Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had cons...
FRED F. FIELDING

In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take som...
EDMUND WHITE

Once upon a time, I was innocent.
MUHAMMED HAIDER

He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps ...
LAINI TAYLOR

It was once him and her, but she lost him and thought for a long time she wanted him back more then ...
AMBER

What had been became what
was and a story only works when you know the ending.
When the pe...
ELIZABETH SCOTT

What was his surprise and his joy when, on looking himself over, he saw that he was no longer a Mari...
CARLO COLLODI

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in lo...
CHARLES PERRAULT

Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt that i was a butterfly. flitting around and enjoying myself....
ZHUANGZI

Was he your boyfriend?” Doran asked. She nodded. “He was my first boyfriend. My first love. My f...
MELISSA LANDERS

He was a very stern man, referred to me as his boy. I was his star pupil and he was my mentor.
J. LOREN WINCE

That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face ...
FAY WRAY

This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought t...
MARY BALOGH

He was her life. She loved that boy, did everything for him. She never said a word about him being v...
AUTRAULIA HARRIS

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.
GABRIELLE ZEVIN

There was a time, probably about a year after my surgery and into my illness that I thought, wow, th...
COLLEEN DUNN

My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. O...
NICK FERGUSON

Absolutely. I - you know, he was so that much a part of my life that, you know, Elvis, you know, onc...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY

38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON

There was a time that I thought I was never going to walk again and I got blessed and got my legs ba...
DAN NEWMAN

Once upon a time, there was only darkness. And there were monsters vast as worlds who swam in it.
LAINI TAYLOR

Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was ta...
NANCY GIBBS

He had just brought back a Central Asian Shepherd dog for my parents and a ring that was a gift from...
JENNIFER WESTER

This is not justified. It was all wrong. The boy was coming in and all he wanted to do was tell his ...
CLYDE EVANS

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.
JAMES BALOG

Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purp...
ZHUANGZI

Allow me to give my lord one last piece of counsel," the old man had said, "the same counsel I once ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

But once, in his anger, Aidan had asked me whether I thought I had wasted my life, and I had told hi...
JOHN BOYNE

Really began realizing how precious life was, how short the clock was, he had not done what he wante...
TIM ALBRIGHT

You are where you need to be. Just take a deep breath.
LANA PARRILLA

Once upon a time my heart was rich in love. Today it is starving for the same warmth and excitement ...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE

The Boy Hunting Locusts A boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a...
AESOP

He was simply a man ahead of his time. He was the second of two men I knew who never had any prejudi...
BUCK O'NEIL

I knew such a woman once,
She gave me everything.
Her love like a soft riot singing,
...
SCOTT HASTIE

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Bat and the Weasels A BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be spar...
AESOP

Because Adam practised at many things, Adam was good at many things, but this – what was it even c...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened ...
CHRISTINE KEELER

It had belonged to that idea of the exasperated consciousness of his victim to become a real test fo...
HENRY JAMES

Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
VERNOR VINGE

We thought we could live there and do a little at a time. But it still had the original electric sys...
ED BAEHREND

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every pro...
KEVIN GATES

I had a sneaking suspicion that time was not constant, but I guess I could never prove it. I suppose...
MARK A. ROEDER

It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different ...
C.S. LEWIS

He was a person that loved to have fun, so we thought what better way to make us feel better, keep h...
BETH CHASE

Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking bo...
KARAN JOHAR

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my c...
MAURICE SENDAK

I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about ...
SOPHIE B. HAWKINS

Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.
MARISSA MEYER

Once upon a time, I had two close friends. Shocking, I know, given my natural charm, but there are t...
JULIE KAGAWA

I had a weird, empty feeling inside me. Not a bad sort of empty. It was a sort of lack of sensation,...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

He was a prince. There was no hope in saying yes to the boy with the garnet eyes who left me reckles...
RACHEL E. CARTER

This is a man who spent his adult life at the bottom of a bottle, trying to anesthetize himself agai...
SUZANNE COLLINS

He took to newspaper journalism once that responsibility was thrust upon him and became a real newsp...
DAVID HAWPE

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pre...
ANTHONY HOLDEN

I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a b...
ESTELLE

These houses were flooded up to about the second story, if they had a second story, so everything wa...
KEATON THOMAS

Every past used to be a future once upon a time
MUNIA KHAN

Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All su...
BANKSY

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive.

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Maggie Stiefvater

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive.

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