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“When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.”
― Robert Asprin, editor

“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.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. 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 unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“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 unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“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.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.”
― Georgette Heyer, These Old Shades

“I don’t give a shite," I snapped, thinking about her bruised face. "I didn’t want her to leave, Gibs, and he just took her away from me. And I let him!"
"You do know that you're not allowed to keep humans as pets, don’t you?" he asked in a wry tone. "You know that's just dogs and cats, right?”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“I am not one to pin all human shortcomings on half the species, but damn. Sometimes? Men. Holy hell.”
― Cate C. Wells, Hitting the Wall

“Damn it all to hell,” I groan. “Son of a bitch,” she agrees. “Motherfucker,” Bevan pipes in. “What are we cursing about? Or who? Whatever, I’m down. Fuck ’em all.”
― Cate C. Wells, The Heir Apparent's Rejected Mate

“I love you,” he says in a low voice, just for me. “You don’t do the love stuff. It’s not your thing.” “Loving you is my thing.”
― Cate C. Wells, Return to Monte Carlo

“I could have told him there was no sense in rushing toward being dead. It would find you soon enough, and before it did there were pleasures to make your heart hurt less.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“In a stranger’s house, it was easy to see what needed doing.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“I loved her then, right as I was getting ready to leave her.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“...Whether she intended it or not, gifts take up space in your heart. I needed that space now... I had the manual Underwood that Grandma taught me to type on. It worked fine, and Grandma didn't take up any more room in my heart than a floor takes up space in a house.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“What the hell is wrong with people?” “Late-stage capitalism,”
― Cate C. Wells, Against a Wall

“I decided a long time ago not to apologize for Mia’s meltdowns. She doesn’t hurt anyone, and apologizing for yourself when you haven’t done wrong is a great way to teach people to treat you like garbage. She’s not gonna learn that from me.”
― Cate C. Wells, Hitting the Wall

“She ducks her head down and shouts, “Catch me!” “Dina, shit, hold up—” There’s an oof, a trilling laugh, a growl, and the sound of a palm connecting with a backside.”
― Cate C. Wells, Against a Wall

“She attended class, but she brought a bowl of ice cream.”
― Margaret Price, Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life