He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either:… — 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 magician was studying her face with his green eyes. "Your face is wet," he said worriedly. "I hope that's spray. If… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous. — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door,… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the… — 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
