299 Quotes by Peter S. Beagle

I’ve had worse, and I’ll have better one day. This is not the end.

As for righting wrongs and fighting for civil liberties, that sort of thing, it wouldn’t be so bad... but then we have to sing those songs about wearing Lincoln green and aiding the oppressed. We don’t, Cully, we turn them in for the reward, and those songs are just embarrassing, that’s all, and there’s the truth of it.

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.

Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying – shameful, even, to come from a minister’s lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.

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 grocer and pick up something for the dog. Also for the baby, soft, because he’s getting his teeth. To do this, you have to have a job five days a week, you can be a great man on week ends.

And at last she woke up in the middle of one warm night and said, “Yes, but now.

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.

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

Oh, more people than not have some magic, they just forget about it. Children use it all the time – what do you think jump rope rhymes are, or bouncing ball games, or cat’s cradles? Where do you think that girl, Aiffe, draws her power? Because she refuses to forget, that’s all it is.