#unicorn quote

[thesparkthatlightsthemoe]

“Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?”

- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

[theunicornapocalypseiscoming]

And thereabove, hanging in space, spangling the sunshine from the window, was the finished skeleton of the unicorn.  It was eerie and beautiful, less like bones than some fey musical instrument. The replacement discs and tubes of burnished copper did not spoil it; they were only sunny patches of warmth against the crystal, and the hoof was a dot of fire. The skull of the unicorn was like a pale rainbow, and the horn, which by daylight seemed only a giant shell made of pearl, had been attached to the forehead with pins of bronze; a coronet.

Tanith Lee, Black Unicorn 

[thesparkthatlightsthemoe]

"I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, but not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else — what do they look like to one another, then? What do trees look like to them, or houses, or real horses, or their own children?"

Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

[thesparkthatlightsthemoe]

She did not look anything like a horned horse, as unicorns are often pictured, being smaller and cloven-hoofed, and possessing that oldest, wildest grace that horses have never had, that deer have only in a shy, thin imitation and goats in dancing mockery.

Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

[theunicornapocalypseiscoming]

What’s a unicorn? A unicorn is a magical, shining, elusive creature bringing unique gifts (even if sometimes they’re a little weird), and living life fully in that unicorn’s most inspiring and incredible truth.

Danielle A. Vincent, You-nicorn: 30 days to find your inner unicorn and live the life you love

[theunicornapocalypseiscoming]

The unicorn is the only fabulous beast that does not seem to have been conceived out of human fears. In even the earliest references he is fierce yet good, selfless yet solitary, but always mysteriously beautiful.

Marianna Mayer, The Unicorn and the Lake

[theunicornapocalypseiscoming]

His vanishing caused magic to pass from the land. Soon all other living things forgot the unicorn, and the animals lost the power to speak to others unlike themselves. Thereafter, birds spoke only to birds, the rabbit only to rabbits, the rat only to rats, and so it was throughout the animal kingdom.

Marianna Mayer, The Unicorn and the Lake

[theunicornapocalypseiscoming]

The unicorn still represents the qualities most people value. They are seen as being gentle, brave, strong, kind, and noble creatures. They live around the edges of our imagination and in our legends.

Gail Gibbons, Behold...The Unicorns!