The Fair Folk Quotes

“The riders, too, were like nothing she had ever seen before: ethereal men and women with pale visages, their cheekbones so sharply sculpted that she could see their skulls through translucent skin. They surrounded her and looked at her with steely blue eyes, each gaze an arrow staking her to that spot, and she could not close her eyes though the sight of them made her eyes burn as if she were looking at the sun.”
― Malinda Lo, Ash

“I love you," Severin said, looking up, looking at nothing at all, face exultant. "I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“The town was its green suburban lawns, sure, but it was also its secrets. The kind of place where people double-checked the locks at night or pulled their kids closer in the grocery store. They hung horseshoes over their front doors and put up bells instead of wind chimes. They wore crosses made from stainless steel instead of gold because gold couldn't protect them from people like me.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, The Replacement

“They've called us a lot of things-- the good neighbors, the fair folk. The gray ones, the old ones, the other ones. Spirits and haunts and demons.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, The Replacement

“Every part of the human condition is packaged neatly in fairy tales. Every bit of culture that makes us who we are.”
― K. Ancrum