Peter S. Beagle Quotes

So I had something to do, something I'd done, someplace to go, and something to look forward to. Tha...

There was nothing for it now but to throw himself on Campos's mercy, and it had been Mr. Rebeck's ex...

The writing of fantasy is best left to those who have nothing better to do, as is indicated by the f...

But some, a very come to the gods all on their own They find their way—long and far it is, sometimes...

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, ...

We are all ghosts," Morris Klapper said at last. "We are conceived in a moment of death and born out...

When I was eighteen or twenty, I knew everything except what I wanted. I knew all about people, and ...

I had a good time that night, too," Michael said, "but I kept thinking, This is forever. This is for...

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken p...

I love you, more, I think, than I know, but our kind of love isn't a sword. It's a light. Not a fire...

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god...

He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get throug...

There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a ...

You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forev...

I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remem...

I wish something would happen to me, something that would show me exactly how cruel and jealous and ...

The stars were going out now, one by one, dropping like pennies behind the television aerials and th...

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridic...

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

So let's say you marry this girl. All right, you can still be a great man. Look at all the great men...

You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.

Man searches constantly for identity, he thought as he trotted along the gravel path. He has no real...

The air was motionless, carved, a block of warm copper fitting neatly around the earth, molded while...

He really would have done all that for her, you see, and done it believing he'd burn in hell forever...

You don't have to believe in Hell. All you need is to hear someone who really does, who believes in ...

She came very close, and looking into my eyes, she said, “My Jenny,” and then she bent her head and ...

After the third [San Miguel], I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to se...

I will miss it so,” she said beside him. “This hell of a place, I will miss it so much. This fat bod...

Because that world's gone. The world where people walked around whistling that music. All the madrig...

Oh, more people than not have some magic, they just forget about it. Children use it all the time - ...

Farrell had seen pure white drunkenness before, but not often enough to recognize it at sight. He kn...

I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to lear...

If there is one thing in this world that I was raised and trained to know, it is that there is only ...

I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did d...

Why did they go away, do you think? If there ever were such things.""Who knows? Times change. Would ...

Sing to me," she said. "That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and i...

My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabit...

I think love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for s...

Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there i...

You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the...

When I was a young man and very well thought of,I couldn't ask aught that the ladies denied.I nibble...

I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself ...

The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near......

Unicorns know naught of shame, or need, or doubt, or debt;But mortals, as you may have noticed, take...

Any woman can weep without tears," she answered over her shoulder, "and most can heal with their han...

We don't steal from the rich and give to the poor. We steal from the poor because they can't fight b...

Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you t...

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

I will kill you if you set me free,' the eyes said. 'Set me free.

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and ov...

..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusi...

Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe,Sooner than I will live with you.Fish will come walking out o...

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

Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the mos...

The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, an...

When we go to the fair in disguise, we never win at archery or at singlestick. We do get some nice c...

From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leavin...

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part ...

When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and p...

I am no king, and I am no lord,And I am no soldier at-arms," said he."I'm none but a harper, and a v...

Under the moon, the road that ran from the edge of her forest gleamed like water, but when she stepp...

I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, or if they had changed so that...

I’m a magician with no magic, and that’s no one at all.

I don't think I could ever see her closely," the sentinel replied, "however close she came." His own...

I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and...

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by you...

You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not e...

I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But...

My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabit...

But what's left on earth that I haven't tried?" Prince Lír demanded. "I have swum four rivers, each ...

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but...

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers c...

You must remind me, little one. When I... when I lose myself - when I lose her - you must remind me ...

He is a true hero," she said, "a dragonslayer, a giantkiller, a rescuer of maidens, a solver of impo...

It's not you worries me. The king is a good man, and an old friend, but it has been a long time, and...

I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better.

The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?"(Unc...

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

...and it's not my place to chase around after you, fixing stuff. What I know's what I know, and it ...

So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke ...

There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."(King Pelles the...

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a g...

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.