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1. "The dead," he had said once, "need nothing from the living, and the living can give nothing to the dead." At twenty-two, it had sounded precocious; at thirty-four, it sounded mature, and this pleased Michael very much. He had liked being mature and reasonable. He disliked ritual and pomposity, routine and false emotion, rhetoric and sweeping gestures. Crowds made him nervous. Pageantry offended him. Essentially a romantic, he had put away the trappings of romance, although he had loved them deeply and never known." ~ Peter S. Beagle
2. "Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets." ~ Peter S. Beagle
3. "Wonder and love and great sorrow shook Schmendrick the Magician then, and came together inside him and filled him, filled him until he felt himself brimming and flowing with something that was none of these. He did not believe it, but it came to him anyway, as it had touched him twice before and left him more barren than he had been. This time, there was too much of it for him to hold; it spilled through his fingers and toes, welled up equally in his eyes and his hair and the hollows of his shoulders. There was too much to hold — too much ever to use; and still he found himself weeping with the pain of his impossible greed. He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full." ~ Peter S. Beagle
4. "The magician was studying her face with his green eyes. "Your face is wet," he said worriedly. "I hope that's spray. If you've become human enough to cry, then no magic in the world — oh, it must be spray. Come with me. It had better be spray." ~ Peter S. Beagle
5. "The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships." ~ Peter S. Beagle
6. "When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls. (...) You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that — then any time at all will be the right time for you." ~ Peter S. Beagle
7. "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." ~ Peter S. Beagle
8. "Tell you something," the raven said. "I was flying over the Midwest once." He stopped abruptly, closed his eyes for a moment, opened them, and began again. "I was flying over the Midwest. Iowa or Illinois, or some place like that. And I saw this big damn seagull. Right in the middle of Iowa, a seagull. And he was flying around in big, wide circles, real sweeping circles, the way a seagull flies, flapping his wings just enough to keep on the updrafts. Every time he saw water he'd go flying down toward it, yelling, "I found it! I found it!" The poor sonofabitch was looking for the ocean. And every time he saw water, he thought that was the ocean. He didn't know anything about ponds or lakes or anything. All the water he ever saw was the ocean. He thought that was all the water there was." ~ Peter S. Beagle
9. "Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts..." ~ Peter S. Beagle
10. "Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!" ~ Peter S. Beagle
11. "Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you." ~ Peter S. Beagle
12. "Schmendrick said, "She is the last. She is the last unicorn in the world.""She would be." Molly sniffed. "It would be the last unicorn in the world that came to Molly Grue." ~ Peter S. Beagle
13. "Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded." ~ Peter S. Beagle
14. "I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to be useless and ineffectual. There must be some meaning to me, if not to my life; there must surely be some purpose that has my name written on it. If this is not so, if I am deceiving myself about this too, then why should I want to become real? What reason have I to live anywhere?" ~ Peter S. Beagle
15. "If he had even blinked, she would have been gone; but he did not blink, and he held her, as he had learned to hold griffins and chimeras motionless with his steady gaze. Her bare feet wounded him deeper than any tusk or riving talon ever had, but he was a true hero." ~ Peter S. Beagle
16. "She did not look anything like a horned horse, as unicorns are often pictured, being smaller and cloven-hoofed, and possessing that oldest, wildest grace that horses have never had, that deer have only in a shy, thin imitation and goats in dancing mockery." ~ Peter S. Beagle
17. "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?" ~ Peter S. Beagle
18. "The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door." ~ Peter S. Beagle
19. "Your topsoil's a disaster area — it's starved for nitrogen, it's been fertilized for years by the criminally insane, and whatever thief put in your irrigation system ought to be flogged through the fleet." ~ Peter S. Beagle
20. "We give them different names, those nights lit only by fire and the moon, depending on the country and the calendar, but we know what they are. They call up the world that was before the Lord came down among us; the world where good and evil were not so certain, so fixed as they are today, where the known and the unheard-of could mingle as they chose...where truth had its doubts, do you see?(By Moonlight)" ~ Peter S. Beagle
21. "The unicorn was gray and still. "There is magic on me," she said. "Why did you not tell me?""I thought you knew," the magician answered gently. "After all, didn't you wonder how it could be that they recognized you?" Then he smiled, which made him look a little older. "No, of course not. You never would wonder about that.""There has never been a spell on me before," the unicorn said. She shivered long and deep. "There has never been a world in which I was not known." ~ Peter S. Beagle
22. "Haven't you ever been in a fairy tale before?" ~ Peter S. Beagle
23. "song of elli (old age)"What is plucked will grow again,What is slain lives on,What is stolen will remainWhat is gone is gone...What is sea-born dies on land,Soft is trod upon.What is given burns the hand -What is gone is gone...Here is there, and high is low;All may be undone.What is true, no two men know -What is gone is gone...Who has choices need not choose.We must, who have none.We can love but what we lose -What is gone is gone." ~ Peter S. Beagle
24. "Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal." ~ Peter S. Beagle
25. "When we go to the fair in disguise, we never win at archery or at singlestick. We do get some nice compliments on our disguises, but no more than that." ~ Peter S. Beagle
26. "Because that world's gone. The world where people walked around whistling that music. All the madrigal singers in the world can't make that other one real again. It's like dinosaurs. We can put them back together perfectly, bone for bone, but we don't know what they smelled like, what kind of sounds they made, or how big they really looked standing in the grass under all those fossil fern trees. Even the sunlight must have been different, and the wind. What can bones tell you about a kind of wind that doesn't blow anymore?" ~ Peter S. Beagle
27. "We don't steal from the rich and give to the poor. We steal from the poor because they can't fight back --most of them-- and the rich take from us because they could wipe us out in a day." ~ Peter S. Beagle
28. "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)" ~ Peter S. Beagle
29. "Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name." ~ Peter S. Beagle
30. "There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous." ~ Peter S. Beagle
31. "I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better." ~ Peter S. Beagle
32. "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." ~ Peter S. Beagle
33. "I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret." ~ Peter S. Beagle
34. "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." ~ Peter S. Beagle
35. "Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you." ~ Peter S. Beagle
36. "Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air." ~ Peter S. Beagle
37. "..no 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." ~ Peter S. Beagle
38. "He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams." ~ Peter S. Beagle
39. "Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power." ~ Peter S. Beagle
40. "- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact." ~ Peter S. Beagle
41. "Any woman can weep without tears," she answered over her shoulder, "and most can heal with their hands. It depends on the wound. She is a woman, Your Highness, and that's riddle enough" ~ Peter S. Beagle
42. "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." ~ Peter S. Beagle
43. " The Blue Jay's Lullaby—Spiders and sowbugs and beetles and crickets, Slugs from the roses and ticks from the thickets, Grasshoppers, snails, and a quail's egg or two— All to be regurgitated for you.Lullaby, lullaby, swindles and schemes, Flying's not near as much fun as it seems." ~ Peter S. Beagle
44. "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." ~ Peter S. Beagle
45. "I love whom I love." ~ Peter S. Beagle
46. "Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it." ~ Peter S. Beagle
47. "You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs." ~ Peter S. Beagle
48. "She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales written in books by rabbits - Schmendrick" ~ Peter S. Beagle
49. "It was not her dream that chilled him, but that she did not weep as she told it. As a hero, he understood weeping women and knew how to make them stop crying--generally you killed something--but her calm terror confused and unmanned him, while the shape of her face crumbled the distant dignity he had been so pleased at maintaining. When he spoke again, his voice was young and stumbling." ~ Peter S. Beagle
50. "This creature is the Pooka. Pay no mind to the shape he wears, for he's none of his own, and no soul either. Ware him ever, trust him never, but when the wind's right he has his uses. Never forget that you will never know him. The Pooka's mystery even to the Pooka." ~ Peter S. Beagle
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