Peter S. Beagle

Quotes

• “He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented t...”
• “I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, or if they had changed so that they hated all unic...”
• “Under the moon, the road that ran from the edge of her forest gleamed like water, but when she stepped out onto it, away...”
• “I wish something would happen to me, something that would show me exactly how cruel and jealous and vengeful I can be. T...”
• “Sing to me," she said. "That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and it will be useful as ...”
• “You don't have to believe in Hell. All you need is to hear someone who really does, who believes in it this minute, toda...”
• “I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, ...”
• “The air was motionless, carved, a block of warm copper fitting neatly around the earth, molded while soft to fit every h...”
• “She came very close, and looking into my eyes, she said, “My Jenny,” and then she bent her head and kissed me—here, on t...”
• “After the third [San Miguel], I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to set any event down in ...”
• “Oh, more people than not have some magic, they just forget about it. Children use it all the time - what do you think ju...”
• “You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shi...”
• “The stars were going out now, one by one, dropping like pennies behind the television aerials and the skylights and the ...”
• “I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die, right there, all...”
• “But some, a very come to the gods all on their own They find their way—long and far it is, sometimes—and they wander up ...”
• “Why did they go away, do you think? If there ever were such things.""Who knows? Times change. Would you call this age a ...”
• “You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes ...”
• “If there is one thing in this world that I was raised and trained to know, it is that there is only so much you may ask ...”
• “He is a true hero," she said, "a dragonslayer, a giantkiller, a rescuer of maidens, a solver of impossible riddles. He m...”
• “The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, only then will you f...”
• “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--...”
• “I think love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long ti...”
• “Any woman can weep without tears," she answered over her shoulder, "and most can heal with their hands. It depends on th...”
• “I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to ...”
• “I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no ...”
• “We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let...”
• “It's not you worries me. The king is a good man, and an old friend, but it has been a long time, and kings change. Even ...”
• “The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted ...”
• “When we go to the fair in disguise, we never win at archery or at singlestick. We do get some nice compliments on our di...”
• “..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. L...”
• “My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power ...”
• “The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?"(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fi...”
• “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 ...”
• “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 ...”
• “Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immo...”
• “Unicorns know naught of shame, or need, or doubt, or debt;But mortals, as you may have noticed, take what they can get.”
• “So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)”
• “Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.”
• “There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.”
• “- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.”
• “You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no.”
• “Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.”
• “Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.”
• “And at last she woke up in the middle of one warm night and said, "Yes, but now.”
• “I will kill you if you set me free,' the eyes said. 'Set me free.”
• “The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.”
• “Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.”
• “You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.”
• “I’m a magician with no magic, and that’s no one at all.”