Peter S. Beagle Quotes


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 90
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 Peter S. Beagle Shame 82
I know how to live here I know how everything smells and tastes and is. What could I ever search for in the world except this again Peter S. Beagle World 76
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 joy was too great for her body to understand. Peter S. Beagle Joy 73
Real magic can never be made by offering someone elses liver. You must tear out your own and not expect to get it back. Peter S. Beagle Sacrifice 60
and you are truly human now. You can love and fear and forbid things to be what they are and overact. Peter S. Beagle Human nature 53
There are honest people in the world but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous. Peter S. Beagle Honesty 48
The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships. Peter S. Beagle Came 46
Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal. Peter S. Beagle Mortality 44
My son your ineptitude is so vast your incompetence so profound that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known. Peter S. Beagle Power 43
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. Peter S. Beagle Heroes 42
There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes. King Pelles the Sure Peter S. Beagle War 41
But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself alright sucker now what Peter S. Beagle Writers 35
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 Romantic 35
Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness or at least the only one I know. By Moonlight Peter S. Beagle Envy 32
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. Peter S. Beagle Song 32
You were the one who taught me he said. I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you and all that is like you. Peter S. Beagle Heroes 32
So youre an angel fine thats terrific. Now give me back my shadows. Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel Peter S. Beagle Angels 31
I think love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last. Peter S. Beagle Fantasy fiction 30
The baloney weighed the raven down and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door. Peter S. Beagle Opening lines 30
The tune was wailing and mournful almost flagrantly so and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover. Peter S. Beagle Music 30
We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams. Peter S. Beagle Authors 26
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. Peter S. Beagle Heroes 23

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