Peter S. Beagle Quotes About Unicorns

Quotes about: Unicorns

• 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 for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Hero, Long, Forever

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

• The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Uncles, Lying, Hero

  "The Last Unicorn". Book by Peter S. Beagle, 1968.

• The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Fall, Eye, Night

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

• We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Unicorn, Broken Dreams

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

• 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

  Heart, Names, Pieces

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

• There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Unicorn, Happy Endings, Ends

  "The Last Unicorn". www.imdb.com. 1982.

• The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Woods, Lasts, Unicorn

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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

  Peter S. Beagle

  Taken, Men, Unicorn

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

• I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, but not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else — what do they look to one another, then? What do trees look like to them, or houses, or real horses, or their own children?

  Peter S. Beagle

  Horse, Children, Real

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Lasts, Unicorn

• The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Rocks, Secret, Unicorn

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

• I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Regret, Tears, Want

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

• Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?

  Peter S. Beagle

  Beautiful, Forever, World

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

• Then what is magic for?" Prince Lír demanded wildly. "What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?" He gripped the magician's shoulder hard, to keep from falling. Schmedrick did not turn his head. With a touch of sad mockery in his voice, he said, "That's what heroes are for.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Fall, Hero, Voice

• Unicorns are not to be forgiven." The magician felt himself growing giddy with jealousy, not only of the touch but of something like a secret that was moving between Molly and the unicorn. "Unicorns are for beginnings," he said, "for innocence and purity, for newness. Unicorns are for young girls." Molly was stroking the unicorn's throat as timidly as though she were blind. She dried her grimy tears on the white mane. "You don't know much about unicorns," she said.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Girl, Moving, White

• A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Spring, Numbers, Mind

• The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. "I know you," he said.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Grief, Men, Speech

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

• 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 for unicorns. But I hope, of course I hope.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Mean, Fate, Sake

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

• Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!

  Peter S. Beagle

  Farewell, Doors, World

• 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, or to madness.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Eye, Moon, White

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

• What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Mean, Men, Doe

  "Fictional character: Unicorn / Lady Amalthea". "The Last Unicorn", 1982.

• What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?

  Peter S. Beagle

  Magic, Use, Unicorn

• What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?

  Peter S. Beagle

  Use, Wizardry, Unicorn

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

• Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Horse, Latin, Animal

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The last unicorn”, Del Rey

• Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves -- for they are a little vain, knowing themselves to be the most beautiful.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Beautiful, Knowing, Littles

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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