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Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose— What is gone is gone.
swift as loss, racing to catch up with the time when she had known nothing at all but the sweetness
of being herself.
The sea is greater than anyone’s greed.”
she who slipped so softly through eternity without bumping into anything.
forever falling, forever following, forever alone.
You have all the power you need, if you dare to look for it.”
“I don’t think I could ever see her closely,” the sentinel replied, “however close she came.”
What I forget not only ceases to exist, but never really existed in the first place.”
I will keep nothing near me that does not make me happy.”
“In the past, you have performed whatever miracle I required of you, and all it has done has been to spoil my taste for miracles.
“You have let your doom in by the front door, though it will not depart that way.
There is nothing that I can look at for very long, except the sea.”
what difference does it make? She is here now.”
My secrets guard themselves—will yours do the same?
what is it that she is seeking in this strange place? She knew a moment ago, but she has forgotten.”
before I forget myself forever, but I do not know the way, and I am lonely.”
no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
“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.”
“I will be as anonymous as the air she breathes,”
I must learn to live without hope,
drown out my dreams, keep me from remembering whatever wants me to remember it.
And I’ll know when I love by the way I behave.’
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.”
But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.”
It is said that love makes men swift and women slow. I will catch you at last if you love much more.”
I will love you as long as I can, However long that may be
Others may offer more than they can give, All that they have for as long as they live
But I will love you as long as I can, And never ask if you love me.
But I always knew that nothing was worth the investment of my heart, because nothing lasts, and I was right, and so I was always old.
She knew the silence of mockery too well to mistake it for death.
“I have time,” the skull replied reflectively. “It’s really not so good to have time.
“I remember,”
“And you would have gone without me,” he said. “You haven’t been listening at all.”
“What was there to know? I saw where she had gone, and I followed.”
I love whom I love.”
“It is good that everything dies. I want to die when you die. Do not let him enchant me, do not let him make me immortal. I am no unicorn, no magical creature. I am human, and I love you.”
But I know that even the very greatest wizards are powerless against two who keep to each other—and
Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.”
I will not love you when I am a unicorn, and you will love me only because you
cannot help it. I will be more beautiful than anything in the world, and live forever.”
“If there is left a single moment of love when he changes me, you will know it, for I will let the Red Bull drive me into the sea with the others. Then at least I will be near you.”
“Yes,” said the Lady Amalthea. “That is my wish.” But at the same moment, Prince Lír said, “No.”
The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”
“I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling.
but in a moment he would turn and see, and touch her for the first
time. He will never know what she has given him, but neither will she.
I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.
“That’s what heroes are for.”
The unicorn bowed her head, and her horn glanced across Lír’s chin as clumsily as a first kiss.
