What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the eternal embrace of a red oak. ….

The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness..

Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips.….

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….

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 underst….

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts..

It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space….

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….

You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs..

I am infected with life and will die of it in time..

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl..

Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved..

Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention..

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished..

I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters..

...because in a way it happened to someone else. I don't really speak that person's language anymore, and when I think about her, she embarrasses me ….

...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them..

The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock..

The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she….

For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and shambled like an ape ….

She said, "I will go no farther." "There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on..