The Last Unicorn #1 Quotes

“I will go back to my forest too, but I do not know if I will live contentedly there, or anywhere. I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, though I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I an 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 #1

“As for her, she is a story with no ending, happy or sad. She can never belong to anything mortal enough to want her.”
― Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“And I say to myself, when there’s time for a word,
As I gracefully grow more debauched and depraved, ‘Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger,
And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“There is never a happy ending because nothing ever ends.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“She stood very still, neither weeping nor laughing, for her joy was too great for her body to understand.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“Oh she’ll kill me one day or another, but she will remember forever that I caught her, that I held her prisoner. So there’s my immortality.”
― Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“(...) I'm engaged, (...)”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“I hope you get slaughtered," the magician told him, but Cully was asleep again.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“I have been hunted with bells and banner in my time," she told him. "Men knew that the only way to hunt me was to make the chase so wondrous that I would come near to see it. And even so I was never once captured.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“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—‌that’s the way life was meant to be. You’re supposed to be too late for some things. Don’t worry about it.”
― Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“You have magic," she said. She heard her own voice, as deep and clear as sibyl's. "Maybe you can't find it, but it's there. (...) You have all the power you need, if you dare to look for it.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“No, he does not want my thoughts, he wants me, as much as the Red Bull did, and with no more understanding.”
― Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“I did not know what she was until now,” he said. “But I knew the first time I saw her that she was something more than I could see. Unicorn, mermaid, lamia, sorceress, Gorgon - no name you give her would surprise me, or frighten me. I love whom I love.”
― Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“But the important thing is for you to understand that it doesn’t matter whether the clock strikes ten next, or seven, or fifteen o’clock. You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that - then any time at all will be the right time for you.”
― Peter s beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“For her beauty was human and doomed, and there was no comfort in it for old men.”
― Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me. How can anything that is going to die be real? How can it truly be beautiful?”
― Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“Always always,” it sighed, “faithfulness beyond any mans deserving. I will keep the colour of your eyes when no other in the world remembers your name. There is no immortality but a tree’s love.”
― Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“And what good is it that you’re here now? Where were you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?”
― Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“Always, always,” it sighed, “faithfulness beyond any man’s deserving. I will keep the colour of your eyes when no other in the world remembers your name. There is no immortality but a tree’s love.”
― Peter s beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“And yet she could make no move that was not beautiful. Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it.”
― Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“It cannot be an ill fortune to have loved a unicorn, surely it must be the dearest luck of all, though the hardest earned.”
― Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I 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.”
― Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.”
― Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“They are nothing to me," King Haggard said. "I have known them all, and they have not made me happy. I will keep nothing near me that does not make me happy.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“One evening, they stopped in a plump, comfortable town where even the beggars had double chins and the mice waddled.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves—for they are a little vain, knowing themselves to be the most beautiful creatures in all the world, and magic besides.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1

“The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn #1