How terrible to be forgotten by the god that made you, even if you're just a room. How could you love something that could do that anytime?
I didn't know unicorns had names, I said. I didn't know they ever loved people.They don't. Only this one. He turned and walked away swiftly, saying over his shoulder, Her name was Amalthea.
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.
Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment
Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.
I love whom I love.
I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling.
I promised only that you would see some sign of unicorns, and so you have. Your realm is blessed beyond any land’s deserving because they have passed across it in freedom. As for you and your heart an...
I sometimes think that a little fear, a little hunger, might be good for us—sharpen our souls,
I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.
If sacrificing herself for her husband's sake were to prove the last thing that Jassi ever did willingly for her new master . . . well, then, so be it, however bitter the taste to Carcharos. Pride had...
It cannot be an ill fortune to have loved a unicorn,
It would be a crime to eat such a mouse! he proclaimed everywhere. An absolute, shameful, yummy crime.
Julie raised her face, gasping and hiccuping, and he saw clearly how she would look when she was old. Baby, he said, and began helplessly kissing lines and hollows and wounds that were not there yet,...
Like that Chinese monkey trying to grab the moon in the water, Uncle Chaim said to me once. That's me, a Chinese monkey.(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)
She is a story with no ending, happy or sad. She can never belong to anything mortal enough to want her. Most
No, she said, answering his eyes. I can never regret.[...]I can sorrow, she offered gently, but it's not the same thing.
Oh, more people than not have some magic, they just forget about it. Children use it all the time - what do you think jump rope rhymes are, or bouncing ball games, or cat's cradles? Where do you think...
She said, I will go no farther.There is no choice. We can only go on. The magician said again. We can only go on.
Still I have read, or heard it sung, that unicorns when time was young, could tell the difference ’twixt the two—the false shining and the true, the lips’ laugh and the heart’s rue.
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