A future is always a fairyland to the young.

The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

“Fairyland is a very Scientifick place. We subscribe to all the best journals.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

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

— Anonymous

“Of which those butterflies Of Earth, who seek the skies, And so come down again (Never-contented things!)”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The Heart of Fairyland is a story”

— Catherynne M. Valente

Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out.

— Brian Froud

“We're not in Fairyland! We're in Kansas!”

— Sarah Zettel

“you’re all a bunch of brainwashed bobbing heads living in fairyland.”

— Elin Peer

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

— G.K. Chesterton

“The idea of fairyland fascinates me because it's one of those things, like mermaids and dragons, that doesn't really exist, but everyone knows about…

— Patricia A. McKillip

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to…

— Anonymous

“My first and last philosophy ... I learnt in the nursery... The things I believed then, the things I believe most now, are the…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The Heart of Fairyland is a story," she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“And if we were not all three in fairyland, certainly I was. I lived principally on Dora and coffee. To have reason to think…

— Charles Dickens

“The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his.”

— Robert Graves