There's a line in the Bible about perfect love casting out fear. That I don't know about, but orneriness will do it every time.
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.
It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is,
If he had even blinked, she would have been gone; but he did not blink, and he held her, as he had learned to hold griffins and chimeras motionless with his steady gaze. Her bare feet wounded him deep...
I've had worse, and I'll have better one day. This is not the end.
All around Molly there flowed and flowered a light as impossible as snow set afire, while thousands of cloven hooves sang by like cymbals. She stood very still, neither weeping nor laughing, for her j...
Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.
You must remind me, little one. When I... when I lose myself - when I lose her - you must remind me that I am still searching, still waiting... that I have never forgotten her, never turned from all s...
This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me. How can anything that is going to die be real? How can it be truly beautiful?
There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.(King Pelles the Sure)
The Last Unicorn
How can we delight in our good fortune when we know that it must end, and that one of us will end it? Every day makes us richer, and brings us one day nearer to our doom.
But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me — me, Jenny Gluckstein — like that. Not my parents, not Julian, not even Meena. Love is on...
What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn? He gripped the magician's shoulder hard, to keep from falling. Shchmendrick did not turn his head. With a touch of sad mockery in his voice, he said,...
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...
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 truth, like a pearl.
It's not you worries me. The king is a good man, and an old friend, but it has been a long time, and kings change. Even more than other people, kings change.
I believe myself to be good, he thought, and so I can afford to titillate myself by considering evil, like a child frightening himself with horror stories. I am not a bad man. But I am not a wise one,...
He had never missed God or the hope of heaven, but he had dearly wanted confession to rest his mind, Communion to let him touch something beyond Father Krone's dry, shaky hand, and holy water to taste...
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.