Quotes by Peter S. Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song

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“I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.”

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“I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die, right there, all that time ago, and this is a ghost who has been telling you stories and drin...”
— Peter S. Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song
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“If there is one thing in this world that I was raised and trained to know, it is that there is only so much you may ask of the gods. Victory in battle is their lightest gift; a quiet heart is your ...”
— Peter S. Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song
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“I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.”
— Peter S. Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song
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