299 Quotes by Peter S. Beagle

It's like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it's considered a successful marriage.

This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me.

I am infected with life and will die of it in time.

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

As for you and your heart and the things you said and the didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts...

The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.