All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.
We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.
That was a weird thought. My straight-up mother being bothered by faeries? Delia was even weirder. I could picture the scene. Faerie: Come away, human. Delia: Why? Faerie: Untold delights and youth forever. Delia: I'm holding out for a better offer. Ta.
Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing.
Leave it to a boy to make the Faerie Realms look like a dump.
Where are you going?" I asked, feeling guilty for not being able to hang out with him. "To find a faerie to kill me, of course. " He winked at us, then pretended to fall straight through when the faerie door opened. Even Arianna laughed as the door closed behind him.
Why’s the faerie so obsessed with you anyway? You’re not that cute. ” (Arianna to Evie)
Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated
Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?
A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.
I don't believe in faeries!
"Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and dreams and America because I knew about them. And I wrote about what it's like to wander into Faerie because I knew about that. I wrote about living underneath London because I knew about that too. And I put people into the stories because I knew them: the ones with pumpkins for heads, and the serial killers with eyes for teeth, and the little chocolate people filled with raspberry cream and the rest of them.
At the edge of our world, at the edge of the otherworld, the beautiful and mysterious faeries stand, watching and waiting to greet us, inviting us to journey with them as our guides while we walk the infinite paths of the Faerie.
Faeries are equally loyal and deceitful.
But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there. " We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't. " what are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it?" Pretty much.
