After the third [San Miguel], I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to set any event down in print is immediately to begin to lie about it, thank goodness; and that it's no...
Because that world's gone. The world where people walked around whistling that music. All the madrigal singers in the world can't make that other one real again. It's like dinosaurs. We can put them b...
The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)
She is a rarer creature than you dare to dream. She is a myth, a memory, a will-o’-the-wish.
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?
I will kill you if you set me free,' the eyes said. 'Set me free.
Remember what I told you about time. When I was alive, I believed -- as you do -- that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see i...
I call her La Signora sometimes. Not for her to answer to, just for me, inside.
He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get through most of his days on stock answers to stock questions, he thought. Once he catches onto the game, h...
No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy--save one, and I thank you for that, too.
Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.
Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe,Sooner than I will live with you.Fish will come walking out of the sea,Sooner than you will come back to me.
The universe lies to our senses and they lie to us. And how can we ourselves be anything but liars?
The universe lies to our senses, and they lie to us, and how can we ourselves be anything but liars? For myself, I trust neither the message nor the messenger; neither what I am told, not what I see....
When the wind changes, and you smell the new moon and dance off over the hills and far away, the only heart broken around here will be the goat's. I want you to understand that. You are a miracle, yes...
The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.
There is never a happy ending because nothing ever ends.
Why did they go away, do you think? If there ever were such things.Who knows? Times change. Would you call this age a good one for unicorns?No, but I wonder if any man before us ever thought his time...
It's like dinosaurs. We can put them back together perfectly, bone for bone, but we don't know what they smelled like, what kind of sounds they made, or how big they really looked standing in the gras...
Tell you something, the raven said. I was flying over the Midwest once. He stopped abruptly, closed his eyes for a moment, opened them, and began again. I was flying over the Midwest. Iowa or Illinois...
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