“Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine.” LastsMotherNightMinesHundredNineKneesFairyTake MeLast NightHarper Author:Mary Howitt
“"We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the times have got so changed as that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us ridiculous, and the fairies have come back. We will wait - ever constant and true - till we are eighty, ninety, or one hundred. And then the fairies will send US children, and we will help them out, poor pretty little creatures, if they pretend ever so much."” IfsInspirationalChildrenLittlesHelpingHandsWaitingPoorSkyChangedCreaturesHundredConstantRidiculousFairyNinetyEighty Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces
“In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.” WorldHomeDreamSeemsLyingSleepSeaLandBedBirdHundredGardenStrangerEastBrilliantGoldenFlightBlissIslandsParadiseFairySmoothPerfumeBreezeSpicesSceneryPhilippinesJavaPicturesqueThicketsLand And SeaSea BreezePheasantsBorneo Author:Frederick Marryat
“Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew.” PeopleKnowsWorldYearsRealDoneRealityNextBitsStupidHundredYears AgoIslamEightToleranceViolentTalesSavingFairyIslamicZeroReal WorldArticlesScholarFairy TaleMedievalCommentaryAnalystsPeace And Tolerance Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“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 hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?” ThinkingBelieveCoursesHundredDon't BelieveFairyFiftyFortyFifteenLibrarian Author:Neil Gaiman
“Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred acre wood to play in with her little stuffed animals. There was pain and crushing disillusionment and betrayal.” BelieveLittlesEndsPlayWantedPainAnimalShareHundredMiracleWoodsBetrayalTalesCrushFairyFairy TaleDisillusionmentAcresStuffed Animal Author:Christine Feehan
“But why didn't you just ask me?" I set down my fork and glare at her. "Because you were sleeping," She says, taking a sip if Chardonnay. "I was taking a nap, Mom. It wasn't intended to be some kind of Disney fairy-tale hundred-year snooze.” IfsYearsKindAsksSleepMomHundredTalesAsk MeFairyFairy TaleNapsForksGlareChardonnay Author:Alyson Noel