Faerie Quotes - Page 4

• Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?

  Charles Lamb

  Queens, Book, Reading

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• Go to faeries for gossip about vampires, to werewolves for gossip about faeries, and do not gossip about werewolves, because they try to bite your face off: that was Magnus's motto.

  Cassandra Clare

  Gossip, Vampire, Trying

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story.

  Graham Hancock

  School, Ivory Tower, Taught

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• La lucha de este mundo por la integridad espiritual puede transmitir una objetividad y una perspicacia poco comunes. En la tierra de Faerie, el lector puede ver sus pequeñas batallas escritas en grande en las guerras de titanes o elfos y entender por primera vez, su propio valor.

  Michael O'Brien

  Spiritual, Integrity, War

  Michael David O'Brien, Michael O'Brien (1998). “A Landscape with Dragons: The Battle for Your Child's Mind”, p.18, Ignatius Press

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• What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked. Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us." "Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour." Alec looked puzzled. "Who's Madonna?" "Who's the Queen of the Seelie Court?" said Clary. "She is the Queen of Faerie," said Magnus. "Well, the local one, anyway." Jace put his head in his hands. "Tell Isabelle no." "But she thinks it's a good idea," Alec protested. "Then tell her no twice.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Thinking, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2010). "Cassandra Clare: Serie El instrumento mortal (3 libros): Ciudad de Huesos; Ciudad de Cenizas; Ciudad de Cristal", p.543, Simon and Schuster

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• Lish tried to swear--which is always funny, because the computer won't translate it. It went something like this: "Bleep stupid bleep bleep faeries and their bleep bleep bleep obsessions. He had better stop bleep bleep bleep the bleep bleep rules or I will bleep bleep bleep the little bleeeeeeeeeeep.

  Kiersten White

  Stupid, Littles, Computer

  Kiersten White (2010). “Paranormalcy”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they're as cunning as snakes. They can't lie, but they love to engage in creative truth-telling. They'll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you—with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place." He sighed. "They're not really about helping people. More about harm disguised as help.

  Cassandra Clare

  Regret, Lying, Years

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.599, Simon and Schuster

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• Magnus sighed. "Alexander, I've been alive for hundreds of years. I've been with men, been with women - with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two." He looked sideways at Maryse, who looked mildly horrified. "Too much information?

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Years, Two

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as his voice cleared. He found the old tune, the song of the Sunbird. And as he sung, as his rich voice echoed off the tall cliffs, the birds and the faeries lent him their voice and soon the tune drifted throughtout the garden.

  Brom

  Song, Garden, Building Up

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• Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Crazy, Order

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• Simon kept pace beside Clary for a few moments without speaking before he said, “So what did I miss? Naked dancing ladies?” Clary thought of the male faerie‘s torn-open ribs and shuddered. “Nothing that pleasant.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dancing, Missing, Males

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• Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Crecer, Princesa, Querer

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• Faeries are unaffected by alcohol, but much to her surprise—and the faeries’ undoing—they get very, very drunk on carbonation. Using copious amounts of Coke, she was able to discover a single faerie’s true name.

  Kiersten White

  Names, Drunk, Alcohol

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• For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Real, Pride, Looks

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means of murdering anyone on the other team.

  Jim Butcher

  Team, Mean, Tables

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.332, Penguin

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• I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Writing, Wish

  Letter to Arthur Greeves on Edmund Spenser on March 07, 1916. "The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1: Family Letters, 1905-1931". Book edited by Walter Hooper, p. 170, 2004.

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• You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. Shame." Sanya to Dresden

  Jim Butcher

  Drug, Tiny, Shame

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• Clary sonrió. "¿Un picnic? Es un poco tarde para Central Park, ¿no crees? Está lleno de..." Hizo un gesto con la mano. "Hadas. Lo sé. "Iba a decir asaltantes", dijo Clary. "Aunque compadezco al atracador que va a por ti". "Esa es una actitud sabia, y te felicito por ello", dijo Jace, con cara de satisfacción.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sabio, Actitud, Pensamiento

  "Ciudad de Huesos". Libro de Cassandra Clare, 27 de marzo de 2007.

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• Eleanor's voice was below zero. 'My finest horse to whichever faerie in this room brings me that woman's left eye.' My thoughts exactly.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Horse, Zero, Eye

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• This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Chica, Libro, Otoño

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.32, Penguin

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• All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.

  Jim Butcher

  Queens, Mad

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1441, Penguin

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• I would remain nearer you for what time there is." "Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. "I can hold my breath.

  Holly Black

  Hair, Gone, Leather

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably.

  Melissa Marr

  Add, Weight, Firsts

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• Though I have to admit, I had a good laugh when I realized you thought I was a bloodsucker." He smiles. "Oh, well excuse me. I mean since there are immortals running around, I figure we may as well bring on the faeries, wizards, werewolves, and—" I shake my head. "I mean jeez, you talk about all this like it's normal!

  Alyson Noel

  Running, Mean, Laughing

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.168, Pan Macmillan

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• Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. And as my words bind my magic, so you can know the truth. If she doesn’t desire his kiss, she won’t be free.

  Cassandra Clare

  Kissing, Magic, Desire

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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