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Quotes About Elves

Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
~ Sabrina Carpenter
Beowulf's Bane, an exotic glowing fungus that ate the flesh of elves, bore an uncanny resemblance to those of necrotizing fasciitis.
~ Peter Watts
As he grew up, he had much attention from the supernally lovely elf women. Without gods, and with few children, the elves know not marriage, but their nature was such that their women had more wish of love and their men less than among humans. Thus Skafloc found himself in great favor, and many a good time did he have in the light nights of summer.
~ Poul Anderson
Elves know friendship, if not love, and I would fain see that done which would have gladdened him.
~ Poul Anderson
'No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves.
~ Tom Wolfe
The thought struck Dennis that a hundred years before he was even born Tinuva undoubtedly knew of the river. Again he realized just how ancient the elven race was and with it came the recognition of just how much they risked when facing battle: it wasn't just a score of years in the balance, it was a score of decades.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Long are the lives of elves' he said. Short are the tempers of dwarfs,'Gotrek muttered, just loud enough to be heard.
~ William King
Elves are extremely long-lived -- the passing years are but a blink of an eye to them. What also sets them apart from us is the very narrow window during which they can procreate, and, as a natural consequence, their very low fertility. The Aen Seidhe believe this to be the main reason for their decline. As one of my elven friends put it, "Even though we fought like wolves, we lost to a race which fucks like rabbits.
~ David Hodgson
Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them...and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen.
~ Janette Rallison
I'd been chased by Valkyries. I'd been chased by elves with firearms. I'd been chased by dwarves with a tank. Now, lucky me, I got to be chased by giants with giant bowling balls.
~ Rick Riordan
Like Santa's elves," Percy said. "Except evil. And metal. And really loud.
~ Rick Riordan
Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds,Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings,To make my small elves coats.
~ William Shakespeare
Now, are you familiar with the Lord of the Rings?" Molech hesitated again, realizing he was playing someone else's game, but with no idea what else to do. He said, "Yeah, old horror movie about a ghost girl who crawls out of a television?" "No, this is the one with wizards and elves. Ends with the midgets fighting in a volcano? It
~ David Wong
My name means 'Keeper of Secrets' in High Elven. Your name means "Trust" in the old dwarven language. So I will hold you to your name, young Khadgar. Young Trust.
~ Jeff Grubb
Uh... , Ivy stammered, and I glanced up to see her eyes wide in consideration. I'm kidding, I said. It passed the lethal-amulet test, remember? Not that. You keep it in your underwear drawer? I hesitated, wondering why I was embarrassed. Well, where do you put your elven magic? I asked.
~ Kim Harrison
She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem.
~ Kim Harrison
Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.
~ Kim Harrison
I thought Trent should get over his pixy paranoia and admit he had an eerie attraction to them, like every other pure-blood elf I'd met. So he liked pixies. I liked double-crunch ice cream, but you didn't see me avoiding it in the grocery store.
~ Kim Harrison
It's said that the reason the elves and demons began their war is because of a broken alliance," he said, the world-weary damage to his face making him look wise. "I've always found it to be true—that the best of friends make the bitterest of enemies. Elves and demons, forever fighting. Who is to say that demons weren't the slaves of elves first?
~ Kim Harrison
I smirked as I recalled how Jenks's kids took to Ceri, and how Ellasbeth's mother, another pure-blood elf, adored Jenks. I didn't have any such "charmed" feelings for the lump of somnolent rock in the belfry rafters, and as far as I knew, neither did any other witch.
~ Kim Harrison
...though the Elders are connected to the Great Spirit, they are still only elves.
~ Craig R. Key, A Sight Unseen
Frannie was watching some elves growing toadstools. As fast as the toadstool grew, an elf laid a cloth on it and put glasses of lemonade and tiny cakes there. It was all like a strange dream. 'Oh, I am glad we came!' said Beth, in delight. 'Who would have thought that the Enchanted Wood would be like this at night?' They
~ Enid Blyton
We hebben het overleefd. Betekent dat dat we nu vrienden zijn? Door een traumatische gebeurtenis met elkaar verbonden?' … 'Ik vind dat ik niet betaald moet krijgen om een vriend te helpen. Hou dat elfengoud maar.
~ Eoin Colfer
Ze zou het hem nooit of te nimmer vertellen, maar als er ooit een mens ingeschakeld moest worden om het elfenvolk te redden, dan was Artemis vermoedelijk de beste kandidaat voor deze klus.
~ Eoin Colfer