“We are all ghosts," Morris Klapper said at last. "We are conceived in a moment of death and born out of ghost… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“Death takes what man would keep," said the butterfly, "and leaves what man would lose. Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks. I… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“I will miss it so,” she said beside him. “This hell of a place, I will miss it so much. This fat… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“Unicorns know naught of shame, or need, or doubt, or debt; But mortals, as you may have noticed, take what they can… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“If I danced with my feet As I did in my dreaming, As graceful and gleaming As death in disguise -- Oh,… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“It's like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it's considered a… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“...and it's not my place to chase around after you, fixing stuff. What I know's what I know, and it don't include putting the… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart. — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.” — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near... She was offering her open… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“Where have you been?" she cried. "Damn you, where have you been?" She took a few steps toward Schmendrick, but she was looking beyond… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
