Way To Fairyland Quotes

#1. Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

Alfred Noyes

#2. We are in this fairyland on sufferance; it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this wild vision of the world.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. Everyone called it losing Mother, but she wasn't lost. She was gone, and no matter where I went - another town, another country, Fairyland, or Gnome Caverns - I wouldn't find her

Gail Carson Levine

#4. A thing too familiar becomes invisible.

Catherynne M Valente

#5. I'm Detective Piper of the Fairyland Metro Police, and I've been called in to investigate the incident of the missing frog prince ...

A.F. Stewart

#6. The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland.

Mehgan Heaney-Grier

#7. Hollywood is the sort of town where you wake up in the morning and look out to see if it's still there. I expect the whole movie colony to pick up its tents one night and go back to whatever fairyland they came from.

Pamela Moore

#8. There is no law stronger than that of
magic. - Kian

Kailin Gow

#9. I like to read fairytales. They make my imagination go wild, and I wander in fairyland.

Debasish Mridha

#10. If Fairyland-Below is Fairyland's shadow, what is the shadow of Fairyland-Below? What's under the underworld?"
Ell laughed like thunder rolling somewhere far off. "I'm afraid it's underworlds all the way down, my dearest, darling flying ace.

Catherynne M Valente

#11. I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

Woodrow Wilson

#12. And squabbling was de rigueur in Fairyland - not even cats were as bad.*

Terry Pratchett

#13. The Marquess laughed her knife-like laugh again. "Do you think Fairyland loves you? That it will keep you close and dear, because you are a good girl and I am not? Fairyland loves no one. It has no heart. It doesn't care. It will spit you back out just like it did me.

Catherynne M Valente

#14. Set your heart at rest. The fairyland buys not the child of me.

William Shakespeare

#15. Father Brown: I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland, I only said it was always dangerous.

G.K. Chesterton

#16. A child equals the mass of Fairyland times the speed of luck squared.

Catherynne M Valente

#17. Be nice to Fairyland. She is old and tender of heart and when her feelings are hurt, she cries volcanoes.

Catherynne M Valente

#18. Once upon a time--which, when you come to think of it, is really
the only proper way to begin a story--the only way that really
smacks of romance and fairyland--

L.M. Montgomery

#19. Ian was living in fairyland and in our own way we all helped him to stay there.

Deborah Curtis

#20. But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.

Karen Joy Fowler

#21. Everyone lies, and there are no consequences. It's like a magical fairyland!

Katie Alender

#22. The child alone a poet is:
Spring and Fairyland are his.

Robert Graves

#23. 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.

Hope Mirrlees

#24. You must return to the fairy cave while children sleep. Fairies only exist if children believe in Fairyland. If you return after they wake from their dreams, you could remain frozen between two worlds for all eternity.

Caz Greenham

#25. Fairyland is a very Scientifick place. We subscribe to all the best journals.

Catherynne M Valente

#26. Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

L.M. Montgomery

#27. Why should I care about you first kiss,' he said. 'You can kiss anyone you like. But sometimes if you wanted to kiss me, that would be all right, too.

Catherynne M Valente

#28. You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire's satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal.

Catherynne M Valente

#29. Books inviting us to read, on the bookshelves stand.
Piers for bridges that will lead, into Fairyland

Rainer Maria Rilke

#30. It is not so easy to always remember who you are.

Catherynne M Valente

#31. The Heart of Fairyland is a story," she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.

Catherynne M Valente

#32. She did not want Fairyland to be full of older girls who wanted to be stars.

Catherynne M Valente

#33. If the three brothers all ride horses, there are six animals and eighteen legs involved: that is true rationalism, and fairyland is full of it.

G.K. Chesterton

#34. Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age
the only perfectly beautiful things on earth
joyous, innocent, half divine
useless, say they who are wiser than God.

Ouida

#35. Folk dress in all manner of finery and wonderful hats to go and watch the races, but only if it's horses doing the barreling that day. This, at least, is understandable, for horses, in secret, love hats more than any other creature. It is a horse's tragedy that they can never properly wear one.

Catherynne M Valente

#36. We're not in Fairyland! We're in Kansas!

Sarah Zettel

#37. Oh, Gilbert, don't let's ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland.

L.M. Montgomery

#38. You have to be able to see the world as a whole to bear it - to see the Queerness that moves in every bit of Fairyland, how it threads through every heart and field, how we are all bound together up in the Weird Well of the World.

Catherynne M Valente