It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“The dead," he had said once, "need nothing from the living, and the living can give nothing to the dead." At twenty-two,… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“Man searches constantly for identity, he thought as he trotted along the gravel path. He has no real proof of this existence… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone. — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“When your life is all taking, what need to learn courtship? Carcharos’s passion for Jassi Belnarak deepened and darkened with every sleepless… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get… — 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