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Popular Faery Sayings
Author's Note
The following is a series of random quotes that crawled into my skull during the production of my first novel, The Key of Neverhence. If you don't like them, don't blame me--blame those damned little faeries!
--S.E. Gordon
Set I: The Kingdoms of the Cloud Faery
Fae
- Once in Fae, always a fae.
- A petal for a problem?
- Lonely fae always close at bay.
- Falling freely, fae forgive thee.
- Come to fae and join the frey.
- Mindful may we be of what the morrow brings.
- Of time and tale it shall unveil.
- Get your head out of the dirt and into the clouds.
- Clouds are meant for the sky, not your brain.
Wings
- It's all in the wings, darling.
- Keep your feet to the ground a little more often.
- Are your wings warped or is it just your brain?
- Pry your feet from the ground every now and then.
- Have you a wing to spare?
- Hope hath greater wings than fae themselves.
- Wear your heart on your wings.
- Never try, never fly.
- Would you carry me if I broke a wing?
Joy
- Just smiling all the way.
- Without a cheer the world disappears.
- The smile without intellect always bests the intellect without a smile.
Humans
- If you want to screw something up, give it to a human.
- Don't listen to him--he's just the little man in the stew.
- Are you sure we can't blame it on the human?
- Wingless wits cause great fits.
- Often paper thin the human skin.
- A human disaster is truly a disaster indeed.
- To err is most definitely human.
- Careful when telling a human they have rocks in the head--you don't want to insult the rocks.
- Human. Disaster. Need I repeat myself?
Flatulence
- Break a wing, not the wind.
- Careful what you float--others may find it reeks.
- I've haven't a wing, but plenty of wind.
- One day that wind will carry you off and away.
- Broken promises like broken wind.
- Your stench implies a larger load.
- One cannot fly very far on only their own wind.
- Not all wind smells the same.
Set II: Random Ventures
Medicine
- Teaching a faery to be a surgeon is like teaching a blind man to swordfight.
Set III: The Dark Faery of the Withered Vine
Fear
- Fear of fear is death itself.
Death
- Greeting death with cookies and milk hardly sweetens the deal.
- Disagree with death and fate may cast a wider smile.
- Fate always has better plans for you.
- Don't flitter to the end of your days and expect a refund.
Parting Thoughts
- (In development)
