Found herself looking into the face of Prince Lír. Behind him there fell a bright
What I forget not only ceases to exist, but never really existed in the first place.
We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.
The unicorn was weary of human beings. Watching her companions as they slept, seeing the shadows of their dreams scurry over their faces, she would feel herself bending under the heaviness of knowing...
The sight of her makes me want to do battle with all evil and ugliness,
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.
The long road hurried to nowhere and had no end.
So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)
So let's say you marry this girl. All right, you can still be a great man. Look at all the great men who had wives. Go ahead, be a great man, don't let me stop you. Only first you should stop by the g...
She touched you twice,' he said in a little while. 'The first touch was to bring you to life again, but the second was for you.
She has a newness, he said. Everything is for the first time. See how she moves, how she walks, how she turns her head—all for the first time, the first time anyone has ever done these things. See how...
Prodigies began to waken somewhere southwest of his twelfth rib, and he himself- still mirroring the Lady Amalthea- began to shine.
No, my lady, you are wrong! Death lives among the poor. Death lives in the foulest, darkest alleys of this city, in some vile, rat-ridden hovel that smells of- He stopped here, partly because he had n...
If I danced with my feet As I did in my dreaming,As graceful and gleamingAs death in disguise --Oh, that would be sweet,But then would I hungerTo be ten years younger,Or wedded, or wise?
I have my power at last, but the world is still too heavy for me to move, though my friend Lír might think otherwise.
He is a true hero, she said, a dragonslayer, a giantkiller, a rescuer of maidens, a solver of impossible riddles. He may be the greatest hero of all, because he's a good man as well. They aren't alway...
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 me sometimes, but I don't want to forget her, I don't wan...
È raro che un uomo sia preso per quello che è veramente – disse. – Nel mondo spesso si commettono sbagli di valutazione. Ora, io ti ho riconosciuto come unicorno già quando ti ho visto la prima volta,...
You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.
You deserve the services of a great wizard, he said to the unicorn, but I’m afraid you’ll have to be glad of the aid of a second-rate pickpocket.