The Law and the Lady on Puss in Boots: “I am going to read--Puss in Boots, and Jack and the Bean-stalk, and anything else I can find that doesn't march with the age we live in."”
The Master and Margarita on Puss in Boots: “'A cat is not supposed to wear trousers, Messire,' the cat replied ... 'Puss-in-Boots exists only in fairy tales, Messire.'”
Foucault's Pendulum on Puss in Boots: “How can the Marquis de Carabas not exist when Puss in Boots says he's in the marquis's service?”
Babel Tower on Puss in Boots: “Named in the same 'pretty Perrault' passage as Little Red Riding Hood.”
Phantastes on The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood: “I thought of the Prince of the Enchanted City, half marble and half a man; of Ariel; of Niobe; of the Sleeping Beauty in the Wood; of the bleeding trees; and many other histories.”
Thérèse Raquin on Bluebeard: “listened...with the affrighted and gaping countenances of small children listening to 'Blue Beard' or 'Tom Thumb.'”
The Shining on Bluebeard: “The name of the story was “Bluebeard.” That was clear in his mind too, because he had thought at first Daddy was saying Bluebird.”
Anne of Avonlea on Bluebeard: “She made frequent trips to the gate and looked as anxiously down the lane as ever her namesake in the Bluebeard story peered from the tower casement.”
The Wild Ass's Skin on Donkeyskin: “As with the heroine of the fable of '_Peau-d'Ane_,' a dainty foot peeped out of the clumsy shoes.”