In fairyland we avoid the word “law”; but in the land of science they are singularly fond of it…. The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, “charm,” “spell,” “enchantment.” They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. – G.K. Chesterton, “The Ethics of Elfland,” Orthodoxy

Every mans life is a fairy-tale written by Gods fingers. – Hans Christian Andersen

When you tell your own fairy tale, you create your own magic. – Terri Guillemets, “Once Upon a Now,” 2004

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), lecture on Don Quixote, Cervantes