“I'm Pumby Ely Fuddles, a magical fairy with magical powers.”

“My love of the UK has a lot to do with being raised on British fairy tales and the lowland Scots lilt in my grandmother's voice.”

“It assumes we haven't evolved from those kindergarten days when we believed in the tooth fairy and in the stork as the source of babies.”

“Clisi knew that one of the others could not be with a faerie or elf without losing their immortality and agelessness.”

“Attanasio mixes Arthurian lore with Norse gods, modern physics and sundry faerie creatures in this literary, passionate novel.”

“Yes, a dark-haired, humanly-dressed faerie was dragging the pen back and forth, scratching out words onto the paper.”

“In the story, the children stumbled upon a hidden entrance that transported them to a magical fairyland filled with enchanting creatures.”

“She had bravely striven to keep her fairyhood, and in the battle of wits, had lost.”

“It wouldn't fool another faery, but a human would see them as regular, rounded ears.”

“Hand in hand they strode back towards the faery castle and the life of everlasting joy and timeless companionship that awaited them.”

“The kingly faery treated his guests well, but he kept them always under his claw-tipped thumb.”

“It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.”

“Fairylands is a name that conjures up a dreamy, other-worldly place, somewhere to escape the cares of a busy life.”

“He suggests that the artificiality of his faeries is also self-consciously that of Spenser's panegyric poetry.”

“From that point on they became known as the Sidhe, so they are as much ancient Gods and Goddesses as they are faeries.”

“The dryads, the flower faeries and the nymphs dwelled in various trees and plants around the forest.”

“The book is based on the story of a crafty 12-year-old Irish boy who is immersed in a world of fairies, leprechauns and gnomes.”

“And tomorrow the sky will be pink and filled with flying leprechauns and fairies.”

“The children that are part of the cast as the fairies add to the joyfulness.”