Quotes from Peter S. Beagle

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

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.

If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.

The Unicorn Sonata... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.

I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

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

A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.

No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give.

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

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

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

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

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

Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment

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

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

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