Quotes on Once Upon A Time

There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.

You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you’re like that, unguarded, than when you’re awake. When you’re awake you’re like someone with her eyes closed, watching a movie on the inside of your eyelids. I can’t reach you anymore. Once upon a time I could, but not now, and not for a long time.

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.

rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.

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.