#folk

It would be dreadfully ironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my memories of her. That sort of ending seemed appropriately tragic; the smitten fey creature becomes human but forgets why he wanted to in the first place. Old fairy tales loved that sort of irony. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#folklore #irony #memory-loss #soul #love

Why do airline pilots always call passengers "folks"? I don't usually take umbrage at generic terminology--I'm one of those forward-thinkers who believes that "man" encompasses the whole darned race -- but at whatever 0'clock in the mornning. I thought it would be nice to be called sometihng that suggested unwashed masses a little less. ↗

— C.E. Murphy

#humor #urban-shaman #humor

I love children. Eating them, that is. ↗

— Keith McGowan

#cuisine #eating #folktales #humor #love

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church. ↗

— Gene Robinson

#bringing #brought #center #church #election

I don’t believe in love, I believe in fucking. It’s honest, it’s efficient. You get in and out with maximum of pleasure and a minimum of bullshit. Love is something that straight people tell themselves they’re in, so they can get laid. And they end up hurting each other, because it was all based on lies to begin with. If that is what you want, then go and find yourself a pretty little girl, and get married. ↗

— Brian Kinney

#love

The riders, too, were like nothing she had ever seen before: ethereal men and women with pale visages, their cheekbones so sharply sculpted that she could see their skulls through translucent skin. They surrounded her and looked at her with steely blue eyes, each gaze an arrow staking her to that spot, and she could not close her eyes though the sight of them made her eyes burn as if she were looking at the sun. ↗

— Malinda Lo

#faeries #fairies #the-fair-folk #men

Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? We’re all witches in one way or another. Witches was the invention of mankind, son. We’re all witches beneath the skin. ↗

— Ian Rankin

#witches #men

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. ↗

— Louis Armstrong

#folk music #heard #horse #i #music

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

#folk #little #masters #music #strange

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#common #common sense #folk #inspiration #let us