Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

“I have always been a firm believer in fairies.”

“The pen is a severer critic than the brush.”

“We just lived in a world of our own.”

“For the rest, I have just been a very busy person, a wife and mother, and a very ordinary one, of whom there is nothing of interest to say.”

“I never know what I'm going to do until I have the pen in my hand.”

“My people must be nice people, you know, and my fairies must be fairy-like.”

“There must be fairies... how else can you explain the gum-blossoms?”