Unseelie Quotes

“If you can only love a child that exists within the boundaries of your expectations- if you would harm them to make them what you want-then you have no business being a parent at all.”
― Ivelisse Housman, Unseelie

“It was like there was a code that everyone knew but me, and they all hated me for not being able to puzzle it out.”
― Ivelisse Housman, Unseelie

“For changelings, the not-quite-human-but-definitely-not-faerie in-betweens, walking among mortals is less of a novelty. We grow up with humans, hated for being almost like them but not enough. Most of us find our way back to the faerie realms by adulthood.”
― Ivelisse Housman, Unseelie

“I’m just a changeling, a shell that only looks human”
― Ivelisse Housman, Unseelie

“Who needs coffee when you have the icy shock of mortal terror?”
― Ivelisse Housman, Unseelie

“Real creatures, I find, are so much harder to control than imagined ones.”
― Ivelisse Housman, Unseelie

“Stories tell of children stolen away by faeries, replaced by inhuman look-alikes.
These look-alikes, they say, could be identified by their strange speech or silence. They cried without reason or never showed any emotion at all, and struggled to relate to a world that seemed foreign to them. Folklorists theorize that these stories were early descriptions of autistic children - proof that autistic people have always been here.
But once, they called us changelings.”
― Ivelisse Housman, Unseelie

“There’s no cure for changelings, and you shouldn’t let this quack convince you otherwise. We deserve to live the way we are!”
― Ivelisse Housman, Unseelie

“If you can only love a child that exists within the boundaries of your expectations—if you would harm them to make them what you want—then you have no business being a parent at all.”
― Ivelisse Housman, Unseelie

“Fairy mischief is just a part of life. Anyone with common sense accepts this and does their best to co-exist, with bribes of milk and shiny things.”
― Ivelisse Housman, Unseelie