The Innkeeper's Song Quotes

“Her face was a stranger’s face, which was as it should be. Love each other from the day we are born to the day we die, we are still strangers every minute, and nobody should forget that, even though we have to. ”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song

“...the bad dreams are the way I bleed...”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song

“Her face was a stranger‘s face, which was as it should be. Love each other from the day we are born to the day we die, we are still strangers every minute, and nobody should forget that, even though we have to.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song

“Oh but I do remember her - as I shouldn't, for any number of reasons - with her ragged, grayinghair sticking out on all sides, her mouth glorious with mockery and her body wearing blood-flecked sweat as a queen wears velvet. Want her? Did I still want her? I wanted to be her, do you understand me? Do you understand?”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song

“I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die, right there, all that time ago, and this is a ghost who has been telling you stories and drinking your wine. You don't understand. Never mind.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song

“I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song

“If there is one thing in this world that I was raised and trained to know, it is that there is only so much you may ask of the gods. Victory in battle is their lightest gift; a quiet heart is your own concern.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song