When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

-Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)
  Peter Pan (published1928), act1.

Every time a child says'I don't believe in fairies'there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

-Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)
  Peter Pan (published1928), act1.

Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in itöalthough I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Letter to F Scott Fitzgerald,15 Sep.