92 quotes found
“Im a magician with no magic, and thats no one at all.”
“I’m a magician with no magic, and that’s no one at all.”
“You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.”
“Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.”
“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.”
“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 very poor harper,That am come hither to wed with ye.""If you were a lord, you should be my lord,An...”
“Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair day...”
“Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)”
“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
“When I was alive, I believed as you do that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find...”
“The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.”
“The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.”
“Whatever can die is beautiful more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?”
“I will miss it so, she said beside him. This hell of a place, I will miss it so much. This fat body, walking mud puddle, deceived by everything, this impossible, ruinous accident of a world, these ...”
“You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his h...”
“There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."(King Pelles the Sure)”
“I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybo...”
“But some, a very come to the gods all on their own They find their waylong and far it is, sometimesand they wander up to the altars, shy and clumsy and embarrassed and alone, and when they can get ...”
“The writing of fantasy is best left to those who have nothing better to do, as is indicated by the fairy tales of otherwise gifted writers like Robert Graves and John Ciardi. It isn't so much the d...”
“I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time, and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.... I...”
“After the third [San Miguel], I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to set any event down in print is immediately to begin to lie about it, thank goodness; and that it's ...”
“Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe,Sooner than I will live with you.Fish will come walking out of the sea,Sooner than you will come back to me.”
“My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.”
