'Thought of the Day'
July 10, 2015
'If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.'
Author: Mo Williams, 'Goldilocks and Three Dinosaurs'
June 22, 2015
'At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale
and the other in the abyss.'
June 9, 2015
'(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect...you know...like being people.'
Author: Toni Cade Bambara, 'Raymond's Run'
May 23, 2015
'The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.'
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien 'Tolkien on Fairy-stories'
May 7, 2015
"'Just living is not enough' said the butterfly, 'one must have sunshine,
freedom, and a little flower.'"
Author: Hans Christian Anderson, The Complete Fairy Tales'
April 30, 2015
'Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them.'
Author: Gregory Maguire, 'What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy'
April 23, 2015
'Great heros need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
It is all part of the fairy tale.'
Author: Peter S. Beagle, 'The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn #1)
April 17, 2015
'Fairy Godmothers didn't exist, and even if they did, they wouldn't wave a magic wand and make everything better. (Not without a contract, anyway).'
Author: Julie Kagawa, 'The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey, #3)'
March 25, 2015,
'If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.'
Author: Mo Williams, 'Goldilocks and Three Dinosaurs'
June 22, 2015
'At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale
and the other in the abyss.'
Author: Paulo Coelho
'(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect...you know...like being people.'
Author: Toni Cade Bambara, 'Raymond's Run'
'The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.'
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien 'Tolkien on Fairy-stories'
"'Just living is not enough' said the butterfly, 'one must have sunshine,
freedom, and a little flower.'"
Author: Hans Christian Anderson, The Complete Fairy Tales'
'Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them.'
Author: Gregory Maguire, 'What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy'
'Great heros need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
It is all part of the fairy tale.'
Author: Peter S. Beagle, 'The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn #1)
'Fairy Godmothers didn't exist, and even if they did, they wouldn't wave a magic wand and make everything better. (Not without a contract, anyway).'
Author: Julie Kagawa, 'The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey, #3)'
'The thing about fairy tales was having faith in the things that don't come true,
and appreciating them when they do.'
and appreciating them when they do.'
Author: Shey Stahl, 'The Champion (Racing on the Edge, #4)'
March 24, 2015
'There is a great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast',
that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.'
Author: G.K. Chesterton
March 17, 2015
'I'll seek a four-leafed shamrock in all the fairy dells,
And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells.'
that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.'
Author: G.K. Chesterton
March 23, 2015
'Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There is no such place.'
Author: Christopher Moore'Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children,
like the Tooth Fairy. There's no such place.'
Author: Christopher Moore
'I'll seek a four-leafed shamrock in all the fairy dells,
And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells.'
Author: Samuel Lover
March 16, 2015
'I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!
Author: J.M. Barrie, 'Peter Pan'
March 13, 2015
'There's no such thing as fair
when it comes to the Fae and their tales.'
Author: Chanda Hahn, 'Fairest (An Unfortunate Fairy Tale, #2)'
March 12, 2015
'But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks.
The shoes are for dancing not running away.
Author: Francesca Lia Block,
'The Rose and the Beast:Fairy Tales Retold'
March 11, 2015
'Yesterday'
Author: Chanda Hahn, 'UnEnchanted'
March 10, 2015
'Subconsciously, every one believes in
angels, fairies, magic, and a happy ever after.'
Author: Kaye P.
March 9, 2015
'It is the duty of every father...
to write fairy tales for his children.'
Author: Oscar Wilde
March 6, 2015
'May you never grow too old to
believe in magic and fairy tales.'
Author: Misty Dawn Seider, 'Dreams on Paper'
March 5, 2015
'Were ye sent by the fairy folk? Do no' lie to me.'
Author: Amy Jarecki,
'Beauty and the Barbarian (Highland Force #3)'
March 4, 2015
'The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all odds with gritted teeth.'
Author: Marina Warner, 'From the Beast to the Blonde:
On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers'
March 3, 2015
'Life is amazingly beautiful, wonderful, and a fairy tale.'
Author: Debasish Mridha
March 2, 2015
'The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you- is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.'
Author: Janette Rallison,
'My Unfair Godmother (My Fair Godmother, #2)'
February 27, 2015
'Whether or not she believes in fairy tales,
every girl is a princess to someone.'
Author: Zach Porter
February 26, 2015
'...Myths aren't fairy tales or legends -
they're an honest attempt to explain mysteries...'
Author: John Geddes, 'A Familiar Rain'
February 25, 2015
'Keep calm and fight the Fairies!'
Supernatural TV Show'
February 24, 2015
'The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.'
Author: W.H. Auden
February 23, 2015
'Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars'
Author: Erin Morgenstern, 'The Night Circus'
February 20, 2015
'Who better to blame it on than a fairy?'
Author: Bobbie Hinman
February 19, 2015
'A fairy tale...demands of the reader total surrender; so long as he is in its world, there must be for him no other.'
Author: W.J. Auden
February 18, 2015
'Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land?'
Author: Wilhelm Grimm, 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'
February 17, 2015
'What if there is no end?'
Author: Chanda Hahn,
'UnEnchanted (An Unfortunate Fairy Tale, #1)'
February 16, 2015
'I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.'
Author: L.M. Montgomery,
'Anne of Green Gablea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)'
February 13, 2015
'I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid.
It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
Author: Rachel McAdams
February 12, 2015
'they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales?
mostly men...'
Author: Alina Radoi
February 11, 2015
'Fairy Tales always have a happy ending. That depends ...
on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.'
Author: Jane Yolen, 'Briar Rose'
February 10, 2015
'Oh, and be careful of the Tooth Fairy.'
Author: Michael Robertson, 'Teeth'
February 9, 2015
'Fairy tales are dangerous when wolves are on the prowl.'
Author: Red Phoenix, 'Socrates Inspires Cherry to Blossom'
February 6, 2015
'It's fun to do the unexpected.'
Author: Walt Disney Company,
'Nursery Rhymes & Fairy Tales'
February 5, 2015
'You were safe on a troll Anyone wanting to mug a
troll would have to use a building on a stick.'
Author: Terry Pratchett,
'Unseen Academicals (Discworld #37)'
February 4, 2015
'Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling at a time.
Author: J.M. Barrie, 'Peter Pan'
February 3, 2015
Don't mess with the fairies.'
Author: David Mitchell, 'The Bone Clocks'
February 2, 2015
'All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.'
Author: Helena Banham Carter
January 30, 2015
'Night and day. Dark and light. Fae and Human.'
Author: Chanda Hahn, 'Reign (An Unfortunate Fairy Tale, #4)'
January 29, 2015
'Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers,
not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.'
Author: Max Luthi
January 28, 2015
'She's like his spirit animal, a gentle, odd, spritely being who I'm pretty sure has a storage space full of fairy dust.'
Author: Jandy Nelson, 'I'll Give You the Sun'
January 27, 2015
'Dragons were a problem sometimes, but they came
only on Tuesdays, so you could work around them.'
Author: Mike Carey
January 26, 2015
'Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales
whose gates are guarded by dragons.
We must fight in order to conquer it.'
Author: Alexandre Dumas
January 23, 2015
'So I have to add this to my cereal, huh?'
Author: Chanda Hahn,
UnEnchanted (An Unfortunate Fairy Tale, #2)
January 22, 2015
'Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.'
Author: Cecelia Ahern, 'Love, Rose'
January 21, 2015
'Between the borders of Faerie and the physical
world stands an ancient forest where the trees are exceedingly tall; and although no longer visible to men,
their roots go deep into its earth.'
Author: Gabriel Brunsdon, 'Azlander: Second Nature'
January 20, 2015
'You can't change destinies already written,
that only happens in fairy tales.'
Author: Katie McGarry, 'Dare You To (Pushing the Limits, #2)'
January 19, 2015
'I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.'
Author: Mae West
January 16, 2015
'Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short
But the long way's pretty.'
Author: Terry Jones, 'Terry Jones, Fairy Tales'
January 15, 2015
'The fairies put on their thinking caps,
which were red and pointy.'
Author: Lisa Mantchev,
'Eyes Like Stars (Theatre Illuminata, #1)'
January 14, 2015
'The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.'
Author: Stephen King, 'It'
January 13, 2015
'In truth we do not go to Faery, we become Fairy,
and in the beating of a pulse we may live
for a year or a thousand years.'
Author: James Stephens, 'Irish Fairy Tales'
January 12, 2015
'Her lips were frosted with sugar and fairydust.'
Author: Allyse Nour, 'Fairytales for Wilde Girls'
January 9, 2015
'You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.'
Author: C.S. Lewis,
'Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life'
January 8, 2015
'Two forces create eternity - a fairy tale and
a dream from the fairy tale.'
Author: Dejan Stojanovic
January 7, 2015
'Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale
in their heart that they adhere to.'
Author: Phoebe Stone, 'The Boy on Cinnamon Street'
January 6, 2015
'Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning,
then with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory
snow; a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red
a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.'
Author: Ellen Kushner,
'Swordspoint, (Riverside #1)'
January 5, 2015
'Mythology was littered with people who
meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies
and were never again heard from.'
Author: Thomm Quackenbush,
'Artificial Gods (Night's Dream #3)
'January 2, 2015
'She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.'
Author: Kate Forsyth, 'The Puzzle Ring'
January 1, 2015
'Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think that you're at the end of the book, and it's only the end of a chapter.'
Author: Deb Caletti, 'The Story of Us'
December 31, 2014
'Venture'
Author: Jacob Grimm,
'The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales'
December 30, 2014
'There is not fairy-book half as wonderful as the lovely
world all about us, if we only know how to read it.'
Author: Morning Glories
December 29,2014
'But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave
and loving, and they have fairy blood in them.
It's a grand thing to have a hare as a friend.
Author: Elizabeth Goudge
December 26, 2014
'Remember that stories are more than just words,
more than fairy tales. They are magic.'
Author: Valya Dudycs, 'The Silence of the Trees'
December 25, 2014
'Deep within the winter forest among the snowdrift wide
You can find a magic place where all the fairies hide....'
Author: Unknown
December 24, 2014
'Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!
Author: Francis Pharcellus Church
December 23, 2014
'Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.'
Author: Willa Cather, 'My Antonia'
December 22, 2014
'A drop of poison on that gathering of snow.
That moment in the fairy tale when we know
what just happened but the princess doesn't.'
Author: Deb Caletti, 'Stay'
December 19, 2014
'Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?'
Author: Priya Ardis, 'My Boyfriend Merlin (My Merlin #1)'
December 18, 2014
'The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.'
Author: Dejan Stojanovic, 'The Sun Watches the Sun'
December 17, 2014
'Fairy tales are even better when they're real.'
Author: Kim Holden, 'All of It'
December 16, 2014
'Haven't you ever been in a fairy tale before?'
Author: Peter S. Beagle,
'The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)'
December 15, 2014
'Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain.'
Author: Stephen Thompson
December 12, 2014
'It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.'
Author: Eoin Colfer, 'Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)'
December 11, 2014
'Fairy tales Thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll or a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.'
Author: Arnold Arre, 'After Eden'
December 10, 2014
'Do you have troll turds in your ears?'
Author: JENKS, 'Pale Demon (The Hollow, #9)'
December 9, 2014
'I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.'
Author: G.K. Chesterton
December 8, 2014
'Once you've been squashed by a giant,
a troll doesn't even seem nearly as heavy.'
Author: Christopher Healy,
'The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom'
December 5, 2014
'We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters.'
Author: Francesca Lia Block
December 4, 2014
'Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.'
Author: Jefferson Smith,
'Strange Places (Finding Tanya. #1)'
December 3, 2014
'Why any self-respecting fairy godmother would pass them over for an inane twit who relied on animals to do her housecleaning was beyond her.'
Author: Marie Hall
December 2, 2014
'Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.'
Author: Peter S. Beagle, 'The Last Unicorn'
December 1, 2014
'Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of tellers.'
Author: Kate Bernheimer
November 28, 2014
'Fairy dust is very useful.
I use it to turn my oatmeal into cake.'
Author: David Shannon, 'Alice The Fairy'
November 27, 2014
'Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential but because they are as enormous as life itself.'
Author: Anthony Esolen,
'Ten Ways to Destroy the Imaginations of Your Child'
November 26, 2014
'You don't want to work to fall in love, you want to be in love. Like in a fairy tale.'
Author: Catherine McKenzie
'There are no endings, and there are no fairy tales. But the pages keep being written. Time soldiers on.'
Author: Jill Dembowski, 'Witch & Wizard: The fire, free preview: The first 34 Chapters'
'Fairy's side note: Even people who don't
believe in magic really do.'
Author: Janette Rallison,
'My Fair Godmother (My Fair Godmother #1)'
'Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.'
Author: Welwyn Wilton Katz
'Don't worry, fairy vomit is no
doubt sweet-smelling to humans.'
Author: Martin Millar, 'The Good Fairies of New York'
'Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things:
fairy tales, dead languages,
weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.'
Author: Laini Taylor, 'Lips Touch: Three Times'
'The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.'
Author: Czeslaw Milosz, 'The Issa Valley'
'The sound of pages turning was the sound of magic.
The dry liquid feel of paper under the fingertips was what magic felt like.'
Author: Emma Donoghue,
'Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins'
'For most people life is not a fairy tale, it is an adventure.'
Author: Ana Monnar
'Truly, there is magic in fairytales. For it takes but a
simply-uttered 'Once upon a time...'
to allure and spellbound an audience.'
Author: Richelle E. Goodrich, 'Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year'
'If you want your children to be intelligent,
read them fairy tales...'
Author: Albert Einstein
'Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many find fairy rings of dark grass, scattered with toadstools, left by their dancing feet.'
Author: Judy Allen, 'Fantasy Encyclopedia'
'Sleep is like a mythical creature that lives in fairy forest and drinks rainbow water.'
Author: Layne Harper
'Unseelie dreams make unseelie fae.'
Author: Luna Lindsay, 'Emeral City Dreamer'
'It's a sword, not a fairy wand, you know.'
Author; John Flanagan, 'The Outcasts
(Brotherban Chronicles, #1)'
'Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales.'
Author: Jostein Gaarder, 'Sophie's World'
'Like many air travellers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.'
Author: J. Maarten Froost,
'The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific'
'The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily every after."'
Author: Lois Lowry, 'Number the Stars'
'The world would be a brighter happier place, if we could only remember out childhood wonder.'
Author: P. J. Roscoe, 'Frey's Child'
'I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned to dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome.'
Author: Charliane Harris, 'Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse, #12)'
'Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.'
Author: Nick Harkaway, 'The Gone-Away World'
'I still read fairy tales, and I like them best of all.'
Author: Audrey Hepburn
'God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.'
Author: Eloisa James, 'When Beauty Tamed the Beast (Fairy Tales, #2)'
'She is not an ordinary girl. She is my fairy who will change my life and make it beautiful with her smiles.'
Author: Awwthentic, 'The Prince and The Fairy'
'Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.'
Author: William Butler Yeats, 'The Land of Heart's Desire'
'Just roll me in fairy dust and call me a unicorn'
Author: Lita Burke, 'Ephraim's Curious Device'
'Yes, I will find you too, my fairy. I will find you.'
Author: Awwthentic
'Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.'
Author: W. B. Yeats
'There is no law stronger than magic. - Kian'
Author: Kailan Gow, 'Bitter Frost'
October 9, 2014
'She is beautiful like an angel, charming like a fairy and sweet as honey'
Author: M. F. Moonzajer, 'A moment with God; Poetry'
October 8, 2014
'Life isn't a fairytale but we can make it like a fairytale.'
Author: Lucy Aisy
October 7, 2014
'Love is beyond space and time. It reaches out to the heart of the person that you are missing. Love binds two souls and not two bodies.'
Author: Awwthentic, 'The Prince and The Fairy'
October 6, 2014
'Devic Magic Woodland sprites, elves and nymphs Waltz in time take a glimpse Fairies hide the forest wit Mushrooms fly, agarics hit.'
Author: William O'Brien, 'Peter, Enchantment and Stardust: The Poems'
October 3, 2014
'I may not be a horse whisperer, but I certainly can and do shout at unicorns.'
Author: Jarod Kintz, 'Who Moved My Choose': An Amazing way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life'
October 2, 2014
'Your American fairytales end that way. Real fairytales end in blood or tears.'
Author: Luna Lindsey, 'Emerald City Dreamer'
October 1, 2014
'I think, at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.'
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
September 30, 2014
'Mary, "How Princess Edane, A daughter, of a King of Ireland, hear A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed, half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where gets is still there, busied with a dance, Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, (Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.)"'
Author: William Butler Yeats, 'The Land of Heart's Desire' Page 81
September 29, 2014
'The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.'
Author: A. E. Housman
September 26, 2014
'Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons, it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky: and the earth, and all things that are in it: and the bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.'
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien, 'On Fairy-Stories'
September 25, 2014
'And as the seasons come and go, here's something you might like to know. There are fairies everywhere: under bushes, in the air, playing games just like you play; singing through their busy day. So listen, touch and look around - in the air and on the ground. And if you watch all nature's things, you might just see a fairy's wing.'
Author: Unknown
September 24, 2014
'There never was a merry world since the fairies left dancing, and the parson left conjuring.'
Author: John Selden, '124 Table-Talk. Parson Verse 2
September 23, 2014
'It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.'
Author: J.M. Barrie, 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens'
September 22, 2014
'Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
Author: P.L. Travers, 'Mary Poppins'
August 29, 2014
'The country people, indeed, did not always clearly distinguish between the Faeries and the dead. They called them both the 'Silent People': and the Milky Way they thought was the path along which the dead are carried to Fairyland.'
Author: Hope Mirrlees, 'Lud-in-the-Mist
August 28, 2014
'Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.'
Author: Eoin Colfer, 'Artemis Fowl'
August 27, 2014
'The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.'
Author: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
August 26, 2014
'When I sound the fairy call, Gather here in silent meeting, Chin to knee on the orchard wall, Cooled with dew and cherries eating. Merry, merry, Take a cherry
Mine are sounder, Mine are rounder Mine are sweeter,
For the eater When the dews fall. Any you'll be fairies all"
Author: Robert Graves, 'Cherry-Time, Fairies and Fusiliers, 1918'
August 25, 2014
'Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.'
Author: William Makespeace Thackeray
August 22, 2014
'Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.'
Author: William Butler Yeats, 'The Stolen Child'
August 21, 2014
'To dance to fey music is the beginning of the end.'
Author: Kate McCafferty, 'Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl'
August 20, 2014
'Remember: That giants sleep too soundly; the witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always: hearts can be well hidden, and can betray them with your tongue.'
Author: Neil Gaiman, 'Instructions' 'Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders'
August 19, 2014
'I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.'
Author: Tori Amos
August 18, 2014
'Take the fair face of woman, and gently suspending, with butterflies, flowers and jewels attending, thus your fairy is made of most beautiful things.'
Author: Charles Ede
August 15, 2014
'I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths and dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real and the here and now?'
Author: John Lennon
August 14, 2014
Author: Kailan Gow, 'Bitter Frost'
'She is beautiful like an angel, charming like a fairy and sweet as honey'
Author: M. F. Moonzajer, 'A moment with God; Poetry'
'Life isn't a fairytale but we can make it like a fairytale.'
Author: Lucy Aisy
'Love is beyond space and time. It reaches out to the heart of the person that you are missing. Love binds two souls and not two bodies.'
Author: Awwthentic, 'The Prince and The Fairy'
'Devic Magic Woodland sprites, elves and nymphs Waltz in time take a glimpse Fairies hide the forest wit Mushrooms fly, agarics hit.'
Author: William O'Brien, 'Peter, Enchantment and Stardust: The Poems'
'I may not be a horse whisperer, but I certainly can and do shout at unicorns.'
Author: Jarod Kintz, 'Who Moved My Choose': An Amazing way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life'
'Your American fairytales end that way. Real fairytales end in blood or tears.'
Author: Luna Lindsey, 'Emerald City Dreamer'
'I think, at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.'
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
'Mary, "How Princess Edane, A daughter, of a King of Ireland, hear A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed, half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where gets is still there, busied with a dance, Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, (Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.)"'
Author: William Butler Yeats, 'The Land of Heart's Desire' Page 81
'The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.'
Author: A. E. Housman
'Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons, it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky: and the earth, and all things that are in it: and the bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.'
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien, 'On Fairy-Stories'
'And as the seasons come and go, here's something you might like to know. There are fairies everywhere: under bushes, in the air, playing games just like you play; singing through their busy day. So listen, touch and look around - in the air and on the ground. And if you watch all nature's things, you might just see a fairy's wing.'
Author: Unknown
'There never was a merry world since the fairies left dancing, and the parson left conjuring.'
Author: John Selden, '124 Table-Talk. Parson Verse 2
'It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.'
Author: J.M. Barrie, 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens'
'Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
Author: P.L. Travers, 'Mary Poppins'
'The country people, indeed, did not always clearly distinguish between the Faeries and the dead. They called them both the 'Silent People': and the Milky Way they thought was the path along which the dead are carried to Fairyland.'
Author: Hope Mirrlees, 'Lud-in-the-Mist
'Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.'
Author: Eoin Colfer, 'Artemis Fowl'
'The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.'
Author: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
'When I sound the fairy call, Gather here in silent meeting, Chin to knee on the orchard wall, Cooled with dew and cherries eating. Merry, merry, Take a cherry
Mine are sounder, Mine are rounder Mine are sweeter,
For the eater When the dews fall. Any you'll be fairies all"
Author: Robert Graves, 'Cherry-Time, Fairies and Fusiliers, 1918'
'Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.'
Author: William Makespeace Thackeray
'Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.'
Author: William Butler Yeats, 'The Stolen Child'
'To dance to fey music is the beginning of the end.'
Author: Kate McCafferty, 'Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl'
'Remember: That giants sleep too soundly; the witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always: hearts can be well hidden, and can betray them with your tongue.'
Author: Neil Gaiman, 'Instructions' 'Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders'
'I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.'
Author: Tori Amos
'Take the fair face of woman, and gently suspending, with butterflies, flowers and jewels attending, thus your fairy is made of most beautiful things.'
Author: Charles Ede
'I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths and dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real and the here and now?'
Author: John Lennon
'We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.'
Author: Charles de Lint
August 13, 2014
'Soft moss a downy pillow makes, and green leaves spread a tent, Where Faerie folk may rest and sleep until their night is spent. The bluebird sings a lullaby, the firefly gives a light, The twinkling stars are candles bright, Sleep, Faeries all, Good Night.'
Author: Elizabeth T. Dillingham, 'A Faery-Song'
August 12, 2014
'Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see. Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amis the clamour all around That beats the whole day long.'
Author: Rose Flyeman
August 11, 2014
'Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.'
Author: C. S. Lewis
August 8, 2014
'Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.'
Author: Charles de Lint
August 7, 2014
'If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find the tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.'
Author: Samuel Smiles
August 6, 2014
'I never did see the fairies in the bottom of the garden. It was just the right kind of garden for fairies but I supposed my eldest sister Mary was the only one who could see them. I was too bouncy and boisterous, perhaps. There was everything a fairy could ask for: a pond, an old stone, an arbour, an arch, old stables, large trees, grassed paths, bushes and small copses of wild plums. There were squares tiled in Spanish patterns amongst which the herbs grew. There was even a bluebell patch.'
Author: Terry Sullivan, 'An inspired Pursuit - Volume ll'
August 5, 2014
'We the fairies, blithe and antic. Of dimensions not gigantic. Though the moonshine mostly keeps us. Oft in orchards frisk and peep us.'
Author: Thomas Randolf
August 4, 2014
'That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still there, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.'
Author: Charles de Lint
August 1, 2014
'What fairy-like music steals over the sea, Entrancing our senses with charmed melody?'
Author: Mrs. C. B. Wilson, 'What fairy-like music'
July 31, 2014
'It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so.'
Author: Charles de Lint
July 30, 2014
'Any man can lose his hat in a fairy-wind.'
Author: Irish Saying
July 29, 2014
July 29, 2014
'The woods are full of fairies! The trees are alive; The river overflows with them. See how they dip and dive! What funny little fellows! What dainty little dears! They dance and leap, and prance and peep. And utter fairy cheers!'
Author: Unknown
July 28, 2014
'Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.'
Author: Hans Christian Anderson
July 25, 2014
'Once upon an enchanted evening, fireflies dance, and fairies made wishes comes true....'
Author: Unknown
July 24, 2014
'Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.'
Author: Andrew Lang
July 23, 2014
'Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly!'
Author: Unknown
July 22, 2014
'And though you should live in a palace of gold Or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies, And never as rich.'
Author: Rose Fyleman
July 21, 2014
'Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.'
Author: Neil Gaiman, 'Coraline'
July 16, 2014
'Hand in hand, with fairy grace, Will we sing, and bless this place.'
Author: William Shakespeare, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
July 15, 2014
'The realm of fairy is a strange land, lying just beyond the fields we know.'
Author: Unknown
July 14, 2014
'When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.'
Author: J. M. Barrie, 'Peter Pan'
July 11, 2014
'You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.'
Author: Neil Gaiman
July 10, 2014
'Come cuddle close to daddy's coat Beside the fire so bright, And hear about the fairy folk That wander in the night.'
Author: Robert Bird
July 9, 2014
'This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human or otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.'
Author: Neil Gaiman
July 8, 2014
'A rustle in the wind reminds us a fairy is near.'
Author: Unknown
July 7, 2014
'All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.'
Author: J. M. Barrie, 'Peter Pan'
July 4, 2014
'Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels. But their magic sparkles in nature.'
Author: Lynn Holland
July 3, 2014
'The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeams, silver white; His ink the dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.'
Author: Joyce Kilmer
July 2, 2014
'Magic lies in between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.'
Author: Charles de Lint
July 1, 2014
'Do not be deceived by the politeness of the fey. Fey are almost always polite. This does not mean they will not happily remove your head'
Author: Julie Kagawa
June 30, 2014
'The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.'
Author: Charles de Lint
June 27, 2014
'The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve; lovers to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.'
Author: William Shakespeare
June 26, 2014
'Do you believe in fairies? ... If you believe, clap your hands!'
Author: J. M. Barrie
June 25, 2014
'Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.'
Author: Douglas Jerrold
June 24, 2014
'International Faerie Day'
'Tuesday, June 24, 2004 - This is your day to...Jump through the sprinkler. Paint your face with colour. Run around a maypole. Wear ornate wings. Sprinkle faerie dust everywhere. Hum silly little songs out loud. Skip along. Draw pretty pictures on the sidewalk. Have a pillow fight. Hold hands with friends. Laugh until it hurts. And finally, just believe!'
Author: E. Nixon
'Tuesday, June 24, 2004 - This is your day to...Jump through the sprinkler. Paint your face with colour. Run around a maypole. Wear ornate wings. Sprinkle faerie dust everywhere. Hum silly little songs out loud. Skip along. Draw pretty pictures on the sidewalk. Have a pillow fight. Hold hands with friends. Laugh until it hurts. And finally, just believe!'
Author: E. Nixon
June 23, 2014
'Garden fairies come at dawn, Bless the flowers then they're gone'
Author: Unknown
June 20, 2014
'Wind chimes in your yard will serenade garden creations - squirrels, fairies and angels'
Author: Unknown
June 19, 2014
'Buttercups in the sunshine look like little cups of gold. Perhaps the Fairies come to drink the raindrops that they hold.'
Author: Elizabeth T. Dillinghan, 'A Faery Song'
June 18, 2014
'Every faerie breath of summer, as it blows loveliness, inspires the blushing rose.'
Author: Unknown
June 17, 2014
'Freckles are like Faerie Kisses'
Author: Unknown
June 16, 2014
'Once in a while right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us fairy tales.'
Author: Unknown
June 14, 2014
'Many people do not believe in fairies, but if you look real close they're always there'
Author: Torlila
June 13, 2014
'Raindrops are like Faerie Whispers'
Author: Unknown
June 12, 2014
'I still believe in 398.2. Do you?'
Author: Unknown
June 11, 2014
'I am starting to think that I am the only one that believes in Faeries. Do YOU Believe?
Author: E. Nixon
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