299 Quotes by Peter S. Beagle

What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

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.

Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn.

Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose-- What is gone is gone.

All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain—this is nothing beside a life without poetry.

Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.

It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.

We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.