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• 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.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Dream, Wall, Sleep

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Grenbry Outhwaite, Annie R. Rentoul (2016). “Fairyland”, p.146, Courier Corporation

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• For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

  William Butler Yeats

  World, Fairy, Empty Souls

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long.

  Rose Fyleman

  Song, Angel, Long

  Rose Fyleman, “White Magic”

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• 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 should be curiosity.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Family, Mother

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Queens, Lying, Team

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 4, l. 53

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• We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

  Charles de Lint

  Believe, Loss, Fairy

  Charles de Lint (2007). “Moonlight & Vines”, p.382, Macmillan

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• There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

  Charles de Lint

  Years, Stories, Goes On

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Children, Wicked, Important

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• There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

  Richard Dawkins

  Respect, Atheist, Learning

  Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 15, 1992.

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• Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Tombstone, Sleep

  Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Gene M. Moore (2007). “The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• The more you give away, the more you get back.

  Wayne Dyer

  Law Of Attraction, Giving, Fairy

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• Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Life, Inspiring, Famous Inspirational

  Hans Henrik Jacobsen, Hans Christian Andersen (1969). “A visit to Funen with Hans Christian Andersen”

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• The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!

  Christopher Morley

  Good Night, Wish, Bed

  Christopher Morley (1919). “The Rocking Horse”

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• What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked. Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us." "Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Dancer, World

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.543, Simon and Schuster

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• How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fall, Men, Righteous Man

  Edmund Spenser (1805). “The Works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.37

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• A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.

  Edmund Spenser

  Knights, Gentle

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 1, canto 1, st. 1

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• Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, pat of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the world.

  Brian Froud

  Song, Passion, Moon

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• The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Sweet, Angel, Light

  Joyce Kilmer (1911). “Summer of Love”

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• Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please" This also became Conrad's epitaph.

  Joseph Conrad

  Taken, Sleep, Sea

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• A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feet, Break Off, Waiting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.147, Harvard University Press

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• This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

  Neil Gaiman

  Character, Doubt, Fiction

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find 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.

  Samuel Smiles

  Flower, Angel, Waiting

  Samuel Smiles (1800). “Thrift”, p.398

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• There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

  John Selden

  Dance, Dancing, World

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• She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their own hearts. They all straddle the border of Faerie, and they see into both worlds. Not dependably into either, perhaps, but that uncertainty keeps them honest and at a distance.

  Emma Bull

  Distance, Heart, Artist

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• Images cluttered the pages, but one tattoo set her nerves on edge; inky black eyes surrounded by wings likes shadows coalescing. Mine. The thought, the need, the reaction was overpowering. Leslie looked up. "This one." she said. "I need this one. But the image is more than just tempting art, and it draws her into a world of shadows and desire- into the world of Faerie.

  Melissa Marr

  Tattoo, Art, Eye

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