All Peter S. Beagle Quotes
- All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement,… All
- The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover. Bagpipe
- 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, but… Bed
- And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare… Ago
- Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose-- What is gone is gone. Choices
- It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a… Behind
- What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone. Gone
- But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished." -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn Always Dreaming
- Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill… All
- Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued… Abandoned
- I fear it, for her sake. It would mean that she too is a wanderer now, and that is a fate for human beings, not… Beings
- He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full. Empty
- Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you. Inspirational
- ...because in a way it happened to someone else. I don't really speak that person's language anymore, and when I think about her, she embarrasses… Anymore
- The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near... She was offering her open palm… Afraid
- 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… Began
- My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever… Certain
- 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… Big
- - and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact. Fear
- The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety,… Cold