FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly
inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits, and
somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. The fairies are now
believed by naturalists to be extinct...

- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

Some day you will be old enough
to start reading fairy tales again.

- C. S. Lewis

We the Fairies, blithe and antic,
Of dimensions not gigantic,
Though the moonshine mostly keep us,
Oft in orchards frisk and peep us.

~Thomas Randolph
 

We call them faerie. 

We don't believe in them.

Our loss.

- Charles de Lint