29 quotes found
“You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.”
“Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.”
“There was once a young man who wished to gain his Hearts Desire.”
“Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.”
“Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”
“And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...”
“I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.”
“So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, just, but you are there like a ghost, a will o' the wisp. Not long ago you burned--your heart bur...”
“They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain al...”
“She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods behind the house. She hoped desperately that their game wouldn't bring them any closer, that they wouldn't scare the bi...”
“He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.”
“I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.”
“There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.”
“Yeah, you and me, we can ride on a starIf you stay with me, girlWe can rule the worldYeah, you and me, we can light up the skyIf you stay by my sideWe can rule the world”
“He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the...”
“There was a moment of hesitation, and then her mouth opened against his, and her tongue slid into his mouth, and he was, under the strange stars, utterly, irrevocably lost.”
“He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped at the edge of the forest, looked at him with disdain, a...”
“Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”
“There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.”
“Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first photograph of the moon, freezing her pale face on cold paper; Mr. Morse had recently announced a way ...”
“A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”
