“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.”
“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
“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. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit.”
“Unicorns may go un-rescued for a very long time, but not forever.”
“The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”
“Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.”
“You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that — then any time at all will be the right time for you.”
“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 I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.”
“It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.”
“Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention. ”
“I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet.”
“I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die.”
“ I am not like the others now, for no _____ was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.”
“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.”
“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 daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.”
“Don’t thank me. I tremble at your doom.”
“I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like you.”
“Few will mean you anything but evil, and a friendly heart — however foolish — may be as welcome as water one day.”
“Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world.”
“I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better.”
“And what good is it to me that you’re here now?”
“Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?”
“I love whom I love, you have no power over anything that matters.”
“I think 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.”
“The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.”
“A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.”
“How can I be cruel? That is for mortals. So is kindness.”
“There are wizards and wizards; there is black magic and white magic, and the infinite shades of gray between — and I see now that it is all the same.”
“Doing good, like love, cannot be valued for what it accomplishes.”
“You are a man, and men can do nothing that makes any difference.”
“I do not think that I will ever see you again, but I will try to do what would please you if you knew.“
