Quotes about fairy

Lewis Spence - British Fairy Origins

It must not be thought, however, that in pagan Ireland Fairyland was altogether conceived as a Hades or place of the dead. We have already seen that in some of its types and aspects it was inherently nothing of the sort; as when, for example, it came to be confused with the Land of the Gods. In all likelihood these separate paradises and deadlands of a nature so various were the result of the stratified beliefs of successive races dwelling in the same region. A conquering race would scarcely cre

Becca Ritchie & Kristia Ritchie - Long Way Down

I’m tougher than you think. You just need to believe in me. You know, like a fairy.

Lewis Spence - British Fairy Origins

At Bealltainn, or May Day, every effort was made to scare away the fairies, who were particularly dreaded at this season. In the West Highlands charms were used to avert their influence. In the Isle of Man the gorse was set alight to keep them at a distance. In some parts of Ireland the house was sprinkled with holy water to ward off fairy influence. These are only a mere handful out of the large number of references available, but they seem to me to reveal an effort to avoid the attentions of d

Lewis Spence - British Fairy Origins

It must be understood that in some cases the process by which a god or goddess degenerates into a fairy may occupy centuries, and that in the passage of generations such an alteration may be brought about in appearance and traits as to make it seem impossible that any relationship actually exists between the old form and the new. This may be accounted for by the circumstance that in gradually assuming the traits of fairyhood the god or goddess may also have taken on the characteristics of fairie

Lewis Spence - British Fairy Origins

But I find it necessary to repeat in this particular place that the division into classes, which is so salient a part of modern demonology, had, and has, little significance for primitive man or for the peasant in a comparatively low state of mental development. To such people, spirits of all kinds - fairies, the ghosts of the dead, and even witches and water-kelpies - are all creatures of the supernatural class between which he scarcely differentiates.

Colin Bord -

We designate the spirit of the well as 'she' because in most of her personifications she takes a female form, though not invariably. She appears in many guises - ghost, witch, saint, mermaid, fairy, and sometimes in animal form, often as a sacred fish - and her presence permeates well lore, and indeed water lore generally.

Eddie Lenihan - Meeting the Other Crowd

And there, on that road, that very minute, he started to play - the most lonesome music that them priests ever in their lives heard. It brought water out o' their teeth, so it did.

Charlie Jane Anders - Love Hurts: A Speculative Fiction Anthology

When it comes to love triangles and duels to the death, you should always cheat. - Fairy Werewolf vs. Zombie Vampire

Kathy Bryson - Feeling Lucky

Everything you’re telling me was just a story, and now it’s real.

Kathy Bryson - Feeling Lucky

A leprechaun did not just kill off my car in a hailstorm.

Kathy Bryson - Feeling Lucky

Grabbing someone’s ass doesn’t count as capturing them!

Kathy Bryson - Feeling Lucky

Oh, you’re hardly one to talk. Look where ogling a man got you.

Kathy Bryson - Feeling Lucky

You didn’t make her sue you, even if you did punch her at that wedding.

Kathy Bryson - Feeling Lucky

Are you trying to seduce me or trick me?

Kathy Bryson - Feeling Lucky

No one ever said you can’t have world dominance and a little romance too.

Kathy Bryson - Feeling Lucky

It was never just about the money.

Kathy Bryson - Feeling Lucky

Don’t pinch that guy’s ass. He’s a leprechaun.

Kathy Bryson - Feeling Lucky

She caught you. Therefore she gets your treasure.

Lewis Spence - British Fairy Origins

Here it is necessary briefly to consider the question of the cult of ancestors before venturing farther. The spirits of the departed are believed to be possessed of supernatural powers which they did not enjoy in the flesh. They may also be dissatisfied or malignant in consequence of being suddenly deprived of life, and if they are neglected by the living, are apt to be revengeful. Therefore they must be cajoled and propitiated. Fear of beings belonging to a mysterious state or sphere of which h

Thomas the Rhymer (ballad) -

And see ye not that braid braid roadThat lies across that lily leven?That is the path of wickednessThough some call it the road to heaven

Nathan Reese Maher -

Jasper!” Casey shouts, startling the young woman. “My cargo is talking to me!

Nathan Reese Maher - the Adventures of Casey Norider and Jaq Synergy

She points to where he went and looks to the neutral Baumen. “He—he did that to me on purpose! He’s insane. Literally, insane!”The munchkin just shrugs. “Welcome aboard!” and returns unconcerned to his work.

M.F. Moonzajer - A moment with God ; Poetry

She is beautiful like an angel, charming like a fairy and sweet like honey.

A.E. Coppard - Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

Humph,' he said, with a disagreeable air, 'the universe does its work very quietly.' (“The Bogey Man”)

Susanna Clarke - The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

I was always amazed at Cambridge how quickly people appeared to take offence at everything I said, but now I see plainly that it was not my words they hated - it was this fairy face. The dark alchemy of this face turns all my gentle human emotions into fierce fairy vices. Inside I am all despair, but this face shows only fairy scorn. My remorse becomes fairy fury and my pensiveness is turned to fairy cunning.

Alexia Purdy -

She was never going to get used to how much the Faeries seem to stare at her, as if dissecting her and examining the little pieces inside her like a science project.~Ever Fire: A Dark Faerie Tale #2

J.R.R. Tolkien -

Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories

Connie Willis - Bellwether

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.

Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl

Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.

P.J. Roscoe - Freya's Child

The world would be a brighter, happier place, if we could only remember our childhood wonder.

Paris Hilton -

I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.

Hans Christian Andersen -

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Kenneth Branagh -

Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently.

Diane von Furstenberg -

Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure

He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.

Lewis Spence - British Fairy Origins

As Mr. R. U. Sayee has well said: 'It should be clear a priori that fairy lore must have developed as a result of modifications and accretions received in different countries and at many periods, though we must not overlook the part played by tradition in providing a mould that to some extent determines the nature of later additions.' It must also be self-evident that a great deal of confusion has been caused by the assumption that some spirit-types were fairies which in a more definite sense ar

Mollie Hunter - The Kelpie's Pearls

No mortal ear could have heard the kelpie passing through the night, for the great black hooves of it were as soundless in their stride as feathers falling.

C.S. Einfeld - Neverdark

For it is a true fact that faeries, just like people, very often find that a full belly and a good friend are all that they need to be happy.

Luna Lindsey - Emerald City Dreamer

Your American fairytales end that way.  Real fairytales end in blood or tears.

J.R.R. Tolkien - Tolkien on Fairy-stories

It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders should be abandoned and the "picture" end only with the paper. This method may be suitable for for photographs; but it is altogether inappropriate for the pictures that illustrate or are inspired by fairy-stories. An enchanted forest requires a margin, even an elaborate border. To print it coterminous with the page, like a "shot" of the Rockies in Picture Post, as if it were indeed a "snap" of fairyl

Maximilian Timm - The WishKeeper

All I ever wanted was to make my parents proud. What happens when I can't be proud of them?" --Shea Evenstar

Mark Hamill -

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

Anihyr Moonstar - The Coquette and the Thane

Both wet to the bone, exhausted, and one unconscious, Kedean thought, all in all, they were faring rather well for two unarmed men who'd only just an hour ago escaped a fleet of fairy pirates into frigid water in unknown territory.

Wirt Gerrare - and Others

How different this world to the one about which I used to read, and in which I used to live! This is one peopled by demons, phantoms, vampires, ghouls, boggarts, and nixies. Names of things of which I knew nothing are now so familiar that the creatures themselves appear to have real existence. The Arabian Nights are not more fantastic than our gospels; and Lempriere would have found ours a more marvelous world to catalog than the classical mythical to which he devoted his learning. Ours is a wor

Alexandre Dumas -

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Nathan Reese Maher -

Jasper set an intercepting course towards that Rhylonian Star Duster. Maybe we can catch them on their blind side.”“Doesn’t this ship have a cloak?” Jaq asks.“Miss Synergy, I don’t know what they teach now a’days at the Academy, but ships do not wear clothes.

Red Tash - Troll Or Derby

Oh, hell. You're a fairy," I said. "Yeah," he said. "You know, they call it 'being gay' nowadays, but sure, whatever.

Debasish Mridha M.D. -

Be a fairy. Dance like a butterfly.

W.B. Yeats - The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

By the Hospital Lane goes the 'Faeries Path.' Every evening they travel from the hill to the sea, from the sea to the hill. At the sea end of their path stands a cottage. One night Mrs. Arbunathy, who lived there, left her door open, as she was expecting her son. Her husband was asleep by the fire; a tall man came in and sat beside him. After he had been sitting there for a while, the woman said, 'In the name of God, who are you?' He got up and went out, saying, 'Never leave the door open at thi

Alexei Maxim Russell - The New Homeowner's Guide to House Spirits

Never interrupt a faerie circle ceremony. And, if a faerie has appeared to you, visually, do not speak to it until it has spoken to you. These two transgressions are considered so rude, that the faeries may literally attack you, on the spot.

William O'Brien - Enchantment and Stardust: The Poems

Devic MagicWoodland sprites, elves and nymphsWaltz in time take a glimpseFairies hide the forest witMushrooms fly, agarics hit

John Geddes - A Familiar Rain

...loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars...

Amy Lane -

You’re here!” She repeated, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legsaround his hips. He’d dropped his bags as she’d ran, and now he cupped her bottom in his large hands...His heart gave a giant thump, all the way down from his chest to his stomach,and as she smiled up at him he lowered his head and devoured her mouth,smile and all. Her lips were just as warm, and just as soft as he remembered, and her mouth tasted like peaches and cinnamon and Corinne Carol-Anne and without thought he push

Amy Lane - Rampant

I will love you forever,” I murmured, and he stroked the hair off of my forehead.I will hold you to that.” His face was grim and his voice was sober—hetouched my handprint of chaos as he said it, and I knew in my bones that it was a solemn vow, and not a sweet or a kind offering of love at all. Green would make me live if he had to crack the foundations of the world.

James Qualls - A Gathering of Dreams

The sun was directly overhead, bright against the flower’s exterior. Warm blueish-purple silhouettes pirouetted and danced along interior walls.

Karen Healey - Guardian of the Dead

It's the shape of the stories that matters, the way belief forms around it. The story has real weight', He pointed at himself. 'Patupaiarehe look like monsters in some stories, but they're beautiful in a lot. I guess people believed more in the beautiful version. And the ideal of beauty changes. If I'd been born two hundred years ago, I bet I wouldn't look like this. The stories shaped me. They shape everyone, inside and out, but me more than most, because I'm magic.

Becca Ritchie & Kristia Ritchie - Long Way Down

She blames herself. I hurt from knowing that I hurt her. Even when we know all of these other people are to blame. My friends. The media. Not her. Not me.I can’t help myself. I continue the cycle and I say, “I don’t want to hurt you.”Lily is quiet for a moment before she says, “I’m tougher than you think. You just need to believe in me. You know, like a fairy.”I do believe in fairies. I do. I do. The jubilant chorus from Peter Pan fills my ears.I look up at her, tears in both our eyes. Is that h

Sarah Rajkotwala - The Year of Talking to Plants: The Plants and Fairies Talk in Their Own Words

Humans need to learn the lesson of acceptance when things seem to go awry, know that this is only temporary, your flow of good is assured with acceptance, gratefulness, love and joy. - fairy quote

Sarah Rajkotwala - The Year of Talking to Plants: The Plants and Fairies Talk in Their Own Words

The earth sometimes rewards humans who do good works for the planet. Look out for unexpected windfalls of produce from the earth such as baskets of fruit or vegetables given to you unexpectedly, nature handcrafts, or a bunch of flowers picked from a beloved garden. These are all signs that the gifts not only came from the giver but from Mother Earth herself. - Fairy of the woods

Eddie Lenihan -

There'll be no more music, Father. But there'll be this!" He stepped into the dark, picked up the knife, and held it under their noses. "Go home. Tell your people what you saw and heard here tonight. And tell 'em that anyone we catch on these roads after dark anymore... this is what they'll get. Now that I know we're never to see the face o' God, we have nothing to lose. So, make sure you have your message right, Father, 'cause there'll be no other warning.

Lewis Spence - British Fairy Origins

On the conversion of the European tribes to Christianity the ancient pagan worship was by no means incontinently abandoned. So wholesale had been the conversion of many peoples, whose chiefs or rulers had accepted the new faith on their behalf in a summary manner, that it would be absurd to suppose that any, general acquiescence in the new gospel immediately took place. Indeed, the old beliefs lurked in many neighbourhoods, and even a renaissance of some of them occurred in more than one area. L

Dawn French - A Tiny Bit Marvellous

There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken seriously. And fairies come in all shapes, colours, sizes and types, they don't have to be fluffy. They can be demanding and furious if hey like. They do, however, have to wear a tiara. That much is compulsory.

Dawn French - A Tiny Bit Marvellous

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

Carolyn Turgeon - Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story

I'm here!" I said..."I'm read to go home!" As if they couldn't see me. As if I couldn't remember what it had been like, fluttering next to someone's ear and whispering into it. How the whole earth was like a musical instrument that we could play effortlessly....I could not fly. My sister was not there. My heart was broken.

Thomm Quackenbush - Artificial Gods

Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now we don't. Now we see them, right?

Genevra Thorne - The Enchanted

He smelled of forest and primal desire that saturated Taryn's senses and made her imagine what it felt like to be caught and conquered.

Kathy Bryson - Fighting Mad -

Nothing good can come from a crack of dawn meeting on a Monday morning.

J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

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.

J.R.R. Tolkien - Tolkien on Fairy-stories

Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using Escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter. just so a Party-spokesman might h

Tracey-anne McCartney - A Carpet of Purple Flowers

She placed her arms and hands strategically over the areas of her body that she felt uncomfortable with, but he moved closer, and his hands gently pulled them away too. “There’s no need to hide from me, you’re beautiful.” His lips then softly kissed the places that she tried to hide. At first, she felt self-conscious, but after taking several deep breaths, she focused purely on him, and not on her fears of not being sexy enough. She felt open, perhaps a little too exposed, more naked inside than

Amy Leigh Mercree - Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life

I honor and love the fairy folk and am excited to keep getting know them for the rest of my life!

Amy Leigh Mercree - Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life

Fairy magic is present in every ray of sunlight and each joyful moment. Embrace the living essence of nature.

Kailin Gow - Silver Frost

We are meant to be.” He pressed his lips to mine again; against myself, against my worry, I once again succumbed to the power of his kiss. “I know that now. Our love is stronger than magic, stronger than the laws of all Feyland. It will survive this...whatever the future brings.” - Prince Kian, Silver Frost.

Destinee Hardwick - Wishing on Raining Stars

The first rule in the book of love is acceptance.

Kailin Gow - Silver Frost

Hush,” I said. “I’m here, and I’m not letting you out of my sight anytime soon so keep holding me tight.” I looked down, a little more than afraid of plummeting hundreds of feet down.- Breena to Kian, Silver Frost

Kailin Gow - Bitter Frost

There is no law stronger than that ofmagic. - Kian

Chérie De Sues -

WEST SALEM ~ October 2011A sudden vision, fraught with malevolence and darkness, obscured her sight. The face of a menacing figure turned from the shadows of his grisly handiwork and stared at Sorcha.Her muscles tensed. By the Goddess, could he see her?Please! No!She wanted to scream, to run, but the vision ensnared her into the horrific moment like a fly in a spider's web.

Desiree Williams - Illusionary

You, Faery Man, are wonderful.

Erik Pevernagie -

We need not be afraid of expecting the unexpected, but let us wheedle each instant we enjoy and endear each happy moment we encounter; let us watch each step we take and each move we make, ever since happiness is a loving and appealing fairy, but utterly frail and vulnerable. ("Happy days are back again")

Hope Mirrlees - Lud-in-the-Mist

The country people, indeed, did not always clearly distinguish between the Fairies and the dead. They called them both the 'Silent People'; and the Milky Way they thought was the path along which the dead were carried to Fairyland.

Nalini Singh - Angels' Blood

Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you.-Raphael

J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

Sunday Adelaja -

Stop listening to fairy that money grows on the tree

Cassandra Clare - Lord of Shadows

Truth is to be found in dreams,” the King said, looking down at them. From this angle, Emma could see that odd splitting of his face ended at his throat, which was ordinary skin. “Tell me, Shadowhunters: you enter a cave. Inside the cave is and egg, lit from within and glowing. You know that it beats with you dreams-not the ones you have during the day, but the ones you half-remember in the morning. It splits open.What emerges?” “A rose,” said Mark. “With thorns.” Cristina cut her eyes toward hi

W.B. Yeats - The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

There are some doubters even in the western villages. One woman told me last Christmas that she did not believe either in hell or in ghosts. Hell she thought was merely an invention got up by the priest to keep people good; and ghosts would not be permitted, she held, to go 'trapsin about the earth' at their own free will; 'but there are faeries,' she added, 'and little leprechauns, and water-horses, and fallen angels.' I have met also a man with a mohawk Indian tattooed upon his arm, who held e

Charlotte Eriksson -

Sweet girl, maybe close the world off and look at him for an houror two.This is your fairy. It ain’t perfect and it ain’t honey sweet with roses on the bed.It’s real and raw and ugly at times. But this is your love. Don’t throw it away searching for someone else’s love. Don’t be greedy. Instead, shelter it. Protect it. Capture every second of easy, pull through every storm of hardship. And when you can, look at him, lying next to you, trusting you not to harm him. Trusting you not to go. Be some

F.D. Lee - The Fairy's Tale

You worked at night, when the shadows masked you and you were little more than a dream. You hid in the forest or the mountains, away from the steam engines and the lamps of the cities, the things that would expose you, confirming you and stripping you of your mystery. You showed yourself rarely, and only to the ones who needed to see you. After the free-for-all that was the earlier Chapters, when babies were stolen, young men murdered and maidens locked away, the fae had had to learn to be very

Thomm Quackenbush - Artificial Gods

They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans.

Farzana Zahid - The Prince and The Fairy

He will never let her go. Never. she belongs to him..Forever.

Farzana Zahid - The Prince and The Fairy

She is not an ordinary girl. She is my fairy who will change my life and make it beautiful with her smiles.

Farzana Zahid - The Prince and The Fairy

Yes, Rose. Love is a wonderful feeling!

Farzana Zahid - The Prince and The Fairy

Why bring him in my life at all when he never was meant to stay?

Farzana Zahid - The Prince and The Fairy

So what if he is not part of my present but he is in my future, I know. And everyday I'm going a step closer to my future, to him.

Farzana Zahid - The Prince and The Fairy

Rose, we are here today. Tomorrow we don’t know where life will take us to. So, as long as we have today in our hands, let’s not slip it from our hands. Let’s live it!

Farzana Zahid - The Prince and The Fairy

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.

Farzana Zahid - The Prince and The Fairy

She believes in love, in destiny and she knows ...she feels her prince in her destiny. She just has to wait for the right time.....

Farzana Zahid - The Prince and The Fairy

Her Prince! He might not be the handsomest man on earth. Not even the richest one too but he would have the purest of the heart and soul and he will love her with the same purity throughout eternity. He would be her Prince.

Farzana Zahid - The Prince and The Fairy

She might not be cinderella to lose her shoe to find her prince or Rapunzel for that matter who will lift him up to set her free only to be lost in him, or Snow-white to be kissed and awakened by a Prince or any other princesses but yet she knows, she believes her destiny has a Prince in store for her - Her man. She would be his Princess and he would be her prince.

A.E. Coppard - Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

O, sir,' murmured Sheila, still on her knees, 'please forgive me.''Forgive you! 0, la, la, la!' cunningly cried the droll, and strutting like an actor. 'Forgiveness is easy, is it not? O, yes, it is nothing. You are a young woman full of pride. O. yes! - but that is nothing. And full of penitence, and that is nothing, too. Pride is nothing, penitence nothing, forgiveness nothing, but even a bargain in farthings must be paid to be made, and I am a plain business man. What costs nothing brings no