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Girls like poems better than dead dragons and magic swords,

Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

That is most of it, being a wizard - seeing and listening.

A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

What is plucked will grow again,
What is slain lives on,
What is stolen will remain
What is gone is gone.

The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.

There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

Avicenna California ... Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.

Don't look back and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.

I will kill you if you set me free,' the eyes said. 'Set me free.

The sight of men filled her with an old, slow, strange mixture of tenderness and terror.

Haven't you ever been in a fairy tale before?

How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?

There's a line in the Bible about perfect love casting out fear. That I don't know about, but orneriness will do it every time.

I am infected with life and will die of it in time.

Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment

Outside, the night lay coiled in the street, cobra-cold and scaled with stars.

Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger,
And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better.

O meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no.

A dream that returns so often is like to be a messenger, come to warn you of the future or to remind you of things untimely forgotten.

When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.

I love whom I love.

But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, alright sucker, now what?

What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?

There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.
(King Pelles the Sure)

The torches went out, and in the darkness, he placed his lips to my ear. I believe you because I choose to; not because I do.

It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.

But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished.

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.

There's more meaning than magic to this. The

I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?

The Last Unicorn

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

She was one woman who knew what to do with a slight moral edge. The

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

Prodigies began to waken somewhere southwest of his twelfth rib, and he himself- still mirroring the Lady Amalthea- began to shine.

Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.

She loved him too. That's why she let him go.

The Unicorn Sonata ... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.

I sometimes think that a little fear, a little hunger, might be good for us - sharpen our souls,

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

...the bad dreams are the way I bleed...

If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.

It cannot be an ill fortune to have loved a unicorn,

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?

I was one of the haves, and one of the secrets of being a have is not wasting your time on empathy.

Stories never end. We end.

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

But she knew beyond both hope and vanity that men had changed, and the world with them, because the unicorns were gone.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art - not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

No," she said, answering his eyes. "I can never regret."[ ... ]"I can sorrow," she offered gently, "but it's not the same thing.

No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy
save one, and I thank you for that, too.

The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?
(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)

The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.

A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.

The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.

Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts ...

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.

This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me. How can anything that is going to die be real? How can it be truly beautiful?

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

The enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream. Still

I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.

How terrible to be forgotten by the god that made you, even if you're just a room. How could you love something that could do that anytime?

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

How terrible it would be if all my people had been turned human by well-meaning wizards - exiled,

We are our own dragons and our own heroes. We must rescue ourselves from ourselves.

It would be a crime to eat such a mouse!" he proclaimed everywhere. "An absolute, shameful, yummy crime.

She said, "I will go no farther."
"There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on.

I'm a magician with no magic, and that's no one at all.

Anyone can say he's a magician these days. The old standards are gone, the old values have been abandoned. Besides, a real magician has a beard.

No place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.

For no one can keep a unicorn in his head for long;

Once you had your man, you let all your accomplishments go. You don't sew or sing any more, you haven't illuminated a manuscript in years - and

I love you," Laura said hopelessly. "I'd love you if you were afraid of everything in the world.

I will keep the colour of your eyes until no other in the world remembers your name.

I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

When you walk, you make an echo where they used to be.

The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.

You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.

No cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.

She is a story with no ending, happy or sad. She can never belong to anything mortal enough to want her. Most

Hell of an ornithologist you'd make.

But the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.

A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

All right, all right for you, you pretentious kneecap! How would you like a punch in the eye?

She was no longer the careless color of sea foam, but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night.