299 Quotes by Peter S. Beagle

Don’t look back and don’t run. You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

There is only one spot in me that is as warm and placid as those cattle, and that is the part that knows quite surely that I will always be cold, that there will always be a wind hunting through me, and that I will always be hurrying before the coming darkness in search of a place that is not there.

But I’m always dreaming, even when I’m awake; it is never finished.

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 one thing – recognition is something else.

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.

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

The unicorn had all the world in her eyes, all the world I’m never going to see, but it doesn’t matter, because now I have seen it, and it’s beautiful, and I was in there too.

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 like starlight.

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.