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When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
J.M. BARRIE, Peter Pan
- Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm,
- Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm;
- For those who dare the truth to tell,
- Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.
MARIA EDGEWORTH, The Knapsack
You just have to pay attention. If you don't, you'll miss them, or see something else--something you expected to see rather than what was really there. Faerie voices become just the wind, a bodach ... scurrying across the street becomes just a piece of litter caught in the backwash of a bus.
CHARLES DE LINT, The Onion Girl
- Fairy folk a-listening
- Hear the seed sprout in the spring,
- And for music to their dance
- Hear the hedgerows wake from trance,
- Sap that trembles into buds
- Sending little rhythmic floods
- Of fairy sound in fairy ears.
- Thus all beauty that appears
- Has birth as sound to finer sense
- And lighter-clad intelligence.
GEORGE ELIOT, Daniel Deronda
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