The Fair Folk Quotes

“It came home to her,” she says softly. “There is no going back. And so she went Onward.”
― Su Bristow, The Fair Folk

“Once you’ve decided to leave something behind, you can’t have one last wonderful time there. It’s like spending a last few minutes with your friend on the railway station before their train arrives. Really, they’ve already gone; you’re just marking time until you can move on to the next thing.”
― Su Bristow, The Fair Folk

“I had realised along the way that if I didn’t do something about the changeling, I myself would be changed. What I hadn’t foreseen was that I would be changed anyway. Before that, I think, nothing I had done had made any real difference to anything. When does a child begin to realise that her actions have consequences?”
― Su Bristow, The Fair Folk

“In all the books she had read, being in love was unmistakeable, and she distrusted it for that very reason. It was a glamour, she thought; a spell born out of a yearning for magic, for something more than ordinary. And I, of all people, know what glamour can conceal.”
― Su Bristow, The Fair Folk

“my resolve is firm. I’ll enjoy tonight while I can, and take the memory back with me.”
― Su Bristow, The Fair Folk