Peter S. Beagle

“I love you," Laura said hopelessly. "I'd love you if you were afraid of everything in the world.”

— Peter S. Beagle

...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.

— Peter S. Beagle

“All around Molly there flowed and flowered a light as impossible as snow set afire, while thousands of cloven hooves sang by…

— Peter S. Beagle

“Alarm clocks were going off in the city now. One after another, sometimes two or three together, they drove their small silver…

— Peter S. Beagle

“Because that world's gone. The world where people walked around whistling that music. All the madrigal singers in the world can't make…

— Peter S. Beagle

Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment

— Peter S. Beagle

It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.

— Peter S. Beagle

“I know why you did it too. You can't become mortal yourself until you change her back again. Isn't that it? You…

— Peter S. Beagle

For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast.…

— Peter S. Beagle

“She did not look anything like a horned horse, as unicorns are often pictured, being smaller and cloven-hoofed, and possessing that oldest,…

— Peter S. Beagle

“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

“I know exactly how you feel," Schmendrick said eagerly. The unicorn looked at him out of dark, endless eyes, and he smiled…

— Peter S. Beagle

“The unicorn was gray and still. "There is magic on me," she said. "Why did you not tell me?" "I thought you…

— Peter S. Beagle

Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and…

— Peter S. Beagle

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My…

— Peter S. Beagle

Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear…

— Peter S. Beagle

If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I…

— Peter S. Beagle

The Unicorn Sonata... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes -…

— Peter S. Beagle

“No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy--save one, and I thank you for that, too.”

— Peter S. Beagle

But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished." -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn

— Peter S. Beagle

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

— Peter S. Beagle

“...I was one of the haves, and one of the secrets of being a have is not wasting your time on empathy.”

— Peter S. Beagle

“Outside, the night lay coiled in the street, cobra-cold and scaled with stars.”

— Peter S. Beagle

“Like that Chinese monkey trying to grab the moon in the water," Uncle Chaim said to me once. "That's me, a Chinese…

— Peter S. Beagle

“But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished.”

— Peter S. Beagle