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“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”
― Tithe
― Tithe
![Julie Kagawa](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1257816454i/2995873._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.”
― The Iron King
― The Iron King
![Neil Gaiman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1234150163i/1221698._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Stardust
― Stardust
![Julie Kagawa](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1257816454i/2995873._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Science is all about proving theories and understanding the universe. Science folds everything into neat logical well-explained packages. The fey are magical capricious illogical and unexplainable. Science cannot prove the existence of faeries so naturally we do not exist. That type of nonbelief is fatal to faries.”
― The Iron King
― The Iron King
![Melissa Marr](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1556828699i/175855._UX200_CR0,1,200,200_.jpg)
“Like many faeries she knew, he was sculpture-perfect, but instead of being wrought of shadows like those in her court, this faery had a tangled feel to him. Shadow and radiance. He didn‘t look much older than her, until she saw the arrogance in his posture. Then, he reminded her of Irial, of Bananach, of Keenan, of the faeries who walked through courts and crowds confident that they could slaughter everyone in the room. Like chaos in a glass cage.”
― Radiant Shadows
― Radiant Shadows
![Julie Kagawa](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1257816454i/2995873._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“The faery lords are immortal. Those who have songs ballads and stories written about them never die. Belief worship imagination we were born of the dreams and fears of mortals and if we are remembered even in some small way we will always exist.”
― The Iron King
― The Iron King
![C.S. Einfeld](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1322713976i/5357448._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Neverdark
― Neverdark
![Sara Teasdale](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1211984197i/347021._CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“Down the hill I went, and then,
I forgot the ways of men,
For night-scents, heady and damp and cool
Wakened ecstasy ”
― Flame and Shadow
I forgot the ways of men,
For night-scents, heady and damp and cool
Wakened ecstasy ”
― Flame and Shadow
![Charlaine Harris](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1399317093i/17061._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.'
'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.”
― Dead in the Family
'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.”
― Dead in the Family
![W.B. Yeats](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1440689155i/29963._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.”
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![W.B. Yeats](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1440689155i/29963._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard
A voice singing on a May Eve like this,
And followed half awake and half asleep,
Until she came into the Land of Faery,
Where nobody gets old and godly and grave,
Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,
Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
And she is still there, busied with a dance
Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood,
Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.”
―
A voice singing on a May Eve like this,
And followed half awake and half asleep,
Until she came into the Land of Faery,
Where nobody gets old and godly and grave,
Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,
Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
And she is still there, busied with a dance
Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood,
Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.”
―
![Jenna Black](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1243367862i/51118.jpg)
“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.”
― Shadowspell
― Shadowspell
![Holly Black](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1692906898i/25422._UY200_CR40,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.'
The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.'
The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.”
― The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.'
The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.”
― The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
![W.B. Yeats](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1440689155i/29963._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“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 exactly similar beliefs and unbeliefs. No matter what one doubts one never doubts the faeries, for, as the man with the mohawk Indian on his arm said to me, 'they stand to reason.' Even the official mind does not escape this faith. ("Reason and Unreason")”
― The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
― The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
![W.B. Yeats](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1440689155i/29963._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“On November Eve they are at their gloomiest, for according to the old Gaelic reckoning, this is the first night of winter. This night they dance with the ghosts, and the pooka is abroad, and witches make their spells, and girls set a table with food in the name of the devil, that the fetch of their future lover may come through the window and eat of the food. After November Eve the blackberries are no longer wholesome, for the pooka has spoiled them.”
― Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
― Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
![W.B. Yeats](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1440689155i/29963._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“He had many strange sights to keep him cheerful or to make him sad. I asked him had he ever seen the faeries, and got the reply, 'Am I not annoyed with them?' I asked too if he had ever seen the banshee. 'I have seen it,' he said, 'down there by the water, batting the river with its hands.' ("A Teller of Tales")”
― The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
― The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
![Julie Kagawa](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1257816454i/2995873._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Fey bersifat magis, tidak logis, dan tidak bisa dijelaskan. Sains tidak dapat membuktikan keberadaan faery. Jadi menurut sains, kami tidak ada. -- Grimalkin, tokoh dalam The Iron King)”
― The Iron King
― The Iron King
![Lewis Spence](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1427453787i/224276._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“In all likelihood fairies of larger stature were ancient gods in a state of decay, while their diminutive congeners were the swarming spirits of primitive imagination.”
― British Fairy Origins
― British Fairy Origins
![W.B. Yeats](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1440689155i/29963._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“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 this hour, or evil may come to you.' She woke her husband and told him. 'One of the good people has been with us,' said he. ("Village Ghosts")”
― The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
― The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
![Emma Bull](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1220945364i/22548._UX200_CR0,53,200,200_.jpg)
“I’ve told you that I’m a tricksy wight, and I am, my sweet. But there are those in the Seelie Court who would make me seem a very perfect knight.”
― War for the Oaks
― War for the Oaks
![Eddie Lenihan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1557121167i/239384._UY200_CR98,0,200,200_.jpg)
“And he got going from there to America. Worked his passage, I s'pose, like a lot more. And I heard he did well in America, too. Got married there. Had a family. But never came back. And you know why? 'Cause if he did, if he ever set foot in Ireland again, you know who'd be waiting for him, don't you?
That's right. The three of 'em. And their box. And the second time they'd make no mistake.
It is a much-overlooked fact that not all of the thousands who fled Ireland in former times did so to escape hunger, deprivation, and persecution. There were also those who went to escape the wrath of the Good People. Many stories illustrated this, the one here being typical.”
― Meeting the Other Crowd : The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland
That's right. The three of 'em. And their box. And the second time they'd make no mistake.
It is a much-overlooked fact that not all of the thousands who fled Ireland in former times did so to escape hunger, deprivation, and persecution. There were also those who went to escape the wrath of the Good People. Many stories illustrated this, the one here being typical.”
― Meeting the Other Crowd : The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland
![Lewis Spence](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1427453787i/224276._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Some discussion of the nature and temperament of the fairies is necessary in view of its possible bearing on their origin. J. G. Campbell tells us that in the Highlands of Scotland they were regarded as "the counterparts of mankind, but substantial and unreal, outwardly invisible." They differ from mortals in the possession of magical power, but are strangely dependent in many ways on man. They are generally considered by the folk at large as of a nature between spirits and men. "They are," says Wentz, "a distinct race between our own and that of spirits.”
― British Fairy Origins
― British Fairy Origins
![Eddie Lenihan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1557121167i/239384._UY200_CR98,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
―
"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.”
―
![Eddie Lenihan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1557121167i/239384._UY200_CR98,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Who're them?" says he to the curate.
"Them are the fallen angels," says the curate.
They had a human form, no wings. God took the wings off of 'em after Lucifer rebelled - that way they couldn't go back, d'you see. They had no wings. But there was so many of 'em that you couldn't drive a knife down between 'em. They were as thick as hair on a dog's back. They were the finest people he ever seen. And whatever way he looked at 'em, some o' the finest girls he ever seen was in it, he said. They had to be good-looking, you know! 'Twas the sin o' pride put Lucifer down, d'you see. The best-looking angel in Heaven, 'twas the sin o' pride put him down. I s'pose they were nearly all as good-looking.”
― Meeting the Other Crowd : The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland
"Them are the fallen angels," says the curate.
They had a human form, no wings. God took the wings off of 'em after Lucifer rebelled - that way they couldn't go back, d'you see. They had no wings. But there was so many of 'em that you couldn't drive a knife down between 'em. They were as thick as hair on a dog's back. They were the finest people he ever seen. And whatever way he looked at 'em, some o' the finest girls he ever seen was in it, he said. They had to be good-looking, you know! 'Twas the sin o' pride put Lucifer down, d'you see. The best-looking angel in Heaven, 'twas the sin o' pride put him down. I s'pose they were nearly all as good-looking.”
― Meeting the Other Crowd : The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland
![Lewis Spence](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1427453787i/224276._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“All three of the English types I have mentioned can, I think, be accounted for as the results of the presence of different cultures, existing side by side in the country, and who were the creation of the folk in ages distantly removed one from another. In a word, they represent specific " strata" of folk-imagination. The most diminutive of all are very probably to be associated with a New Stone Age conception of spirits which haunted burial-mounds and rude stone monuments. We find such tiny spirits haunting the great stone circles of Brittany. The "Small People," or diminutive fairies of Cornwall, says Hunt, are believed to be "the spirits of people who inhabited Cornwall many thousands of years ago. "The spriggans, of the same area, are a minute and hirsute family of fairies" found only about the cairns, cromlechs, barrows, or detached stones, with which it is unlucky to meddle." Of these, the tiny fairies of Shakespeare, Drayton, and the Elizabethans appear to me to be the later representatives. The latter are certainly not the creation of seventeenth-century poets, as has been stated, but of the aboriginal folk of Britain.”
― British Fairy Origins
― British Fairy Origins
![Eddie Lenihan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1557121167i/239384._UY200_CR98,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Meeting the Other Crowd : The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland
― Meeting the Other Crowd : The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland
![W.B. Yeats](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1440689155i/29963._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“In the dim kingdom there is a great abundance of all excellent things. There is more love there than upon the earth; there is more dancing there than upon the earth; and there is more treasure there than upon the earth. In the beginning the earth was perhaps made to fulfill the desire of man, but now it has got old and fallen into decay. What wonder if we try and pilfer the treasures of that other kingdom!
("The Three O'Byrnes and the Evil Faeries")”
― The Celtic Twilight (Bridge Bilingual Classics)
("The Three O'Byrnes and the Evil Faeries")”
― The Celtic Twilight (Bridge Bilingual Classics)
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