Top 100 Quotes About Faerie
#1. 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
#2. But unlike you," said Jace, "there is nothing of hell in us."
"You are mortal; you age; you die," the Queen said dismissively. "If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?
Cassandra Clare
#3. We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
Charles De Lint
#4. He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the lights of Wall behind him, wavering and glimmering as if in a heat-haze, but still inviting.
Neil Gaiman
#5. We are not here to reclaim a Faerie that once was, but to participate in a Faerie that ever is.
The Silver Elves
#6. You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation.
Kiersten White
#7. It's hard to say no to Nate, even when he's wearing a shirt. I should have made him cover his face too.
Rachel Morgan
#8. Creepy Hollow?" He snorts. "Like Sleepy Hollow?"
"No, like Creepy Hollow. It has nothing to do with sleeping.
Rachel Morgan
#9. She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.
Cinda Williams Chima
#10. The whole thing reeked of faerie mischief.
Screw you. Me and my magic hands will be fine, thank you very much.I'm staying right where I am.
Kiersten White
#11. Eleanor's voice was below zero. 'My finest horse to whichever faerie in this room brings me that woman's left eye.'
My thoughts exactly.
Maggie Stiefvater
#12. Oh, I don't want to pat you on the head, faerie," he said low in his throat in a deep purring growl that vibrated through her body. He bent closer until his lips brushed hers. "I want to fuck your mouth.
Thea Harrison
#13. Isn't that what all human women wish for? A handsome faerie lord to wed and shower them with riches for the rest of their lives?
Sarah J. Maas
#14. I've learned that the flesh that clothes us means very little." Prince Ashton
Genevra Thorne
#15. If by it, you mean that big ass vein in the middle of your forehead, then yeah. It moved all right and it's still pulsing.
Kimberly Spencer
#16. A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.
Michael D. O'Brien
#17. The constant education is what keeps me interested. That's what absolutely fascinates me about this job. This week, I'm playing a faerie. Last year, I played a soldier. What am I going to be playing in six months? It's amazing! It's a wonderful job.
Robert Kazinsky
#18. Ash brought my hand to his lips, his eyes never leaving mine. "I love you, Meghan Chase," he murmured against my skin. "For the rest of my life, however long we have left. I'll consider it an honor to die beside you.
Julie Kagawa
#19. Turns out faerie-proofing a person required a length of chain that one could find in any hardware store ...
Cherie Colyer
#20. Humph,' he said, with a disagreeable air, 'the universe does its work very quietly.' ("The Bogey Man")
A.E. Coppard
#21. I said home."
He laughed again. "You didn't say whose." Furious and too tired to deal with any more faerie crap, I opened my mouth to tell him exactly where to take me and where he could go after that. I wasn't sure a faerie could obey a command to go to hell, but I was going to find out.
Kiersten White
#22. I don't know you either for that matter. So maybe I shouldn't trust the words of a man who only recently decided to stitch himself into the picture.
Kimberly Spencer
#23. I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep.
Anna Sheehan
#24. I could read between the lines just as well as anyone, especially Riona. Telling the Queen of Faerie to shut the fuck up probably came with consequences.
Suzanne M. Sabol
#25. Fuathan don't come out until after dark. Sunlight kills them.'
'Like vampires?'
'Kind of. Very mean, sub-aquatic vampires who don't need to drink your blood, but might do it anyway, just for fun.
Somerset McCoy
#26. He closed his eyes, and a single tear crawled down his cheek. I knew I was asking him to do the impossible, and it was tearing me apart that Ash was suffering. But at least I would make it right in the end. I'd promise him that much.
Julie Kagawa
#27. But there were no faerie godmothers. There were only mothers and grandmothers, and there was no magic wand to wave over a person's heart and make it all better. The fairy tales lied ... Fucking Brothers Grimm.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#28. Faerie: where it's only a little weird to realize that my boyfriend is older than the internal combustion engine.
Seanan McGuire
#29. I would remain nearer you for what time there is."
"Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted.
Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. "I can hold my breath.
Holly Black
#30. The faerie queen's compassion was even more frightening than her anger.
Maggie L. Wood
#31. The Faerie Courts are duking it out up there, and it's probably going to be very hairy. The Summer Lady is our baddie, and the Winter Knight is her bitch. She has a magic hankie. She's going to use it to change a statue into a girl and kill her on a big Flintstones table at midnight.
Jim Butcher
#32. And if we don't have Energy runes, we'll have to get our energy the old-fashioned way."
Mark looked puzzled. "Drugs?"
"Chocolate," Emma said. "I brought chocolate. Mark, where do you even come up with these things?"
Mark smiled crookedly, shrugging one shoulder. "Faerie humor?
Cassandra Clare
#33. There once was a girl of the sea, who refused to see who she could be. The strength of a world in the hands of a girl, consumed by the curse of the three.
Kimberly Spencer
#34. The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things are possible in the land of Faerie.
Brian Froud
#35. I would have said sacrificing one of his own kind was a new low for Jag, but honestly? Jag was a bottomless pit of low.
Red Tash
#36. The next morning dawned cool and clear. The early mist had lifted, leaving a thick layer of dew clinging to the hillsides beyond the castle, shimmering in the morning sun like faerie dust sprinkled over a lush bed of emerald.
Like his eyes.
Monica McCarty
#37. When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.
M.E. Vaughan
#38. Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. And as my words bind my magic, so you can know the truth. If she doesn't desire his kiss, she won't be free.
Cassandra Clare
#39. How can I rule anyone - when you so completely rule me?
Kailin Gow
#40. Dammit, man. I'm a Faerie Princess, not a forensic analyst." I
Jim Butcher
#41. That is not an adequate response, faerie," he growled. His Power lay in the room, a heavy brooding presence. "I require a series of words strung together that make coherent sentences.
Thea Harrison
#42. This beast was not a man, not a lesser faerie. He was one of the High Fae, one of their ruling nobility: beautiful, lethal, and merciless.
Sarah J. Maas
#43. The catering on 'True Blood' was so good - I'd be eating amazing doughnuts all day, then realised I was in danger of turning into a right fat faerie.
Robert Kazinsky
#44. That pretender is living on the future queen's coin. She is saying she will do for me what she would not do for herself. She will use Faerie gold to finance my needs.
Hailey Edwards
#45. Goddammit, T-bird, he said. I love that faerie as much as any of us, but I couldn't watch and do nothing while she becomes your Titanic.
Thea Harrison
#46. She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
Holly Black
#47. Seelie Court," murmurs Nate. "Sounds familiar. Was it in a computer game?"
"Do I look like someone who plays computer games?"
A grin stretches across Nate's face. "You look like someone who could be in a computer game.
Rachel Morgan
#48. I would have thought you'd pay more attention to your closest competition."
"I would - if you were competition worth paying attention to.
Rachel Morgan
#49. More than honor, more than life, I love thee." What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can.
More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee," I said. "more than any power in faerie, I love thee.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#51. There was a string - a string tied to my gut that pulled me toward those hills, commanding me to go, to hear the faerie drums
Sarah J. Maas
#52. I'm not her," I said, slipping my arm through his. "You're not going to lose me, I promise.
Julie Kagawa
#53. The bathroom door swings open and Nate walks out. He's toweling his damp hair and wearing nothing but a pair of boxers.
Crap. I should have left this for a more appropriately clothed time of day.
Rachel Morgan
#55. There have to be a few perks to being king of Faerie or no one would want the job.
Sarah Delena White
#56. Of course the fall semester didn't start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I'd be alive when it rolled around.
Jenna Black
#57. His mum had loved her ornaments, as she called them, but when she died, his dad waited about a week before boxing them up and giving them to a charity shop. "I loved your mum, Quinton," he'd said, "but I hate them fuckin' porcelaincats.
India Drummond
#58. This is how a faerie loves: with her whole body and soul.
This is how a faerie loves: with destruction.
This is how a faerie loves: with a gift.
Cassandra Clare
#59. There's the road to heaven, and there's the road to hell, and there? That's the road to Faerie.
Ellen Kushner
#60. Nonsense!" growled the Wolf. "I tell you that it is all the fault of the Government, and if you don't believe me I shall eat you." The Wolf had a thoroughly practical mind, and was never at a loss for a good argument.
Oscar Wilde
#61. We're a superstitious breed, we Irish, and wise enough to build around a faerie hill without disturbing it, to leave a stone dance where it stands. And to keep back from a place where the dark still thrums.
Nora Roberts
#62. Leave it to a boy to make the Faerie Realms look like a dump.
Kiersten White
#63. The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.
Jim Butcher
#64. The problem with faerie gifts is that they always come with a price, which is why they are made by the desperate and the foolish.
Holly Black
#65. When someone from Faerie ever tells you something, you can see it - you can feel it - you believe it. For the true value of enchantment and its glamour, is in the imparting of a truth - by truth's own persuasion it makes itself real.
Gabriel Brunsdon
#66. I ached for him, my stomach twisting painfully. He looked so desolate standing there alone facing a mad queen and several thousand angry fey. His voice was flat and resigned, as if he'd been pushed into a corner and had given up, not caring what happened next.
Julie Kagawa
#67. No-one's used a wand in the Nightside for centuries. Wands went out with black cats and pointy hats. (All right, the Faerie Court still use them, but the Fae have always been weird.)
Simon R. Green
#68. I angle my head down and peer up at him through my lashes in what I hope is an alluring manner. I have zero experience in this area though, so it's possible I look like a total moron.
Rachel Morgan
#69. 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
#70. Are you serious? Vi's arm has been magically barbequed and you think she
needs a cupcake?
Rachel Morgan
#71. Only an idiot would trust a Kelpie this close to the water. Getting on its back with the scent of the sea in the air would be a fast, painful means of suicide, and I'm not a fan of pain.
Seanan McGuire
#72. Hmm, I officially amend my previous statement. Clearly one of them is that stupid.
Kimberly Spencer
#74. No animal that massive could be so quiet. But if he was no ordinary animal, if he was of Prythian origin, if he was somehow a faerie, then being eaten was the least of my concerns. If he was a faerie, I should already be running.
Sarah J. Maas
#75. She wondered if he thought this was all a lark, a game. She'd been to Disney World once. There the fairies were cute and sweet and didn't attempt to kill the visitors. Living here wasn't anything like the human faerie fairs or theme parks.
Terry Spear
#76. In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell.
Holly Black
#77. In his eyes I could see the same love, the same longing. I wanted to kiss him; I wanted him to kiss me, and I could feel his longing so clearly I could not distinguish between my wanting and his. And in his arms I felt safe, warm, alive.
Kailin Gow
#79. -'Perhaps you'd better watch your back, stupid glowy golden faerie man whore.'
-'That didn't make any sense.'
-'Good. Now maybe I can join your club.
Kiersten White
#80. The world would be a brighter, happier place, if we could only remember our childhood wonder.
P.J. Roscoe
#81. You know, while you're off sexercizing, I'll be sitting here all by my lonesome watching lame ass lifetime movies.
Kimberly Spencer
#82. Faerie music is the wind", he says, "and their movement is the play of shadow cast by moonlight, or starlight, or no light at all. Faerie lives like a ghost beside us, but only the city remembers. But then the city never forgets anything.
Charles De Lint
#83. The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form.
Brian Froud
#84. Is that what you were doing in my room?" he asks after a moment.
I sigh. Why am I telling him any of this? "Yes. I was on assignment."
"I was your assignment?"
"Yes."
He hesitates a moment, then grins. "That's kind of hot.
Rachel Morgan
#85. 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.
Maggie Stiefvater
#86. Aren't faeries supposed to be, like, really tiny? With wings and a wand and faerie dust?"
"I'm not Tinker Bell!
Rachel Morgan
#87. I refuse to let you talk me into a make-out session in a dodgy, underground tunnel. I have standards, you know.
Rachel Morgan
#88. We got it." Val grinned and lifted her fist. "Wonder twin powers activate!"
Ruth grinned back, knocking her fist into Val's. "Shape of two fucking lunatics.
Holly Black
#89. There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.
Rose Fyleman
#90. I'm trying to be diplomatic. The wisdom of my ass is well-known. If I didn't lip off to them, after shooting my mouth off to faerie queens and Vampire Courts
plural, Courts
demigods and demon lords, they might get their feelings hurt.
Jim Butcher
#92. You're not the kind of person to just randomly fall in love. You're way too . . ."
My eyes shoot to his. "Too what?"
"Well, you know, emotionally closed off."
"I will emotionally close off every orifice in your face if you don't shut up about this right now.
Rachel Morgan
#93. Where are we?"
"In a special place," he whispered, dragging his lips across her ear, "where magic is real.
Genevra Thorne
#94. Know, Goodwife, that Faerie is shaped by storytellers. Their fantasies, their dreams give my realm life. We were dying, all of us, from the smallest nixie to highborn sidhe, for want of a storyteller.
Eugie Foster
#95. Emma cursed the intensity of the faerie language- like meant nothing to them: They lived in a world of love or hate, scorn or adoration.
Cassandra Clare
#96. Why the hell didn't faerie food come with a warning written in bold letters: MADE IN LA LA LAND. EATING WILL OPEN YOU UP TO FAERIE ATTACKS.
Cherie Colyer
#97. He hesitated, but then stepped beneath the tree and knelt, depositing me gently on the ground between two giant roots. And he stayed there, kneeling beside me, holding my hand in his. Something splashed the back of my hand, cold as spring water, crystalling to my skin. A faery's tears.
Julie Kagawa
#98. They loved him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magical people.
Holly Black
#99. Amie blinked through the haze of her thoughts and the constant drum of the rains. A golden light swung back and forth in the distance like a pendulum and every second drew closer. Finally, Amie could tell it wasn't a faerie light but a lantern, carried by a small green-cloaked person.
Jennifer Silverwood
#100. 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.
Alexei Maxim Russell
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