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Fairy Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy…
- 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…
- With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of…
- Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
- I am the most unhappy soul alive." "I'd heard it said that fairies have no souls." "Then do I ache, and bleed, and smart, elsewhere;…
- Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a…
- It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these
- I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the…
- He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you;…
- I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than than that. They just were. Adult stories never made…
- Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons are real, but because they tell us that they can be beaten.
More Fairy Quotes
- We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes.… — Amy Adams
- Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of… — Douglas Adams
- Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands! — James M. Barrie
- To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children… — Annie Besant
- It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness… — William Blake
- I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy,… — Julie Burchill
- I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt
- All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. — Helena Bonham Carter
- I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. — Beverly Cleary
- You should treat a muse like a fairy. — Paulo Coelho