Peter S Beagle Quotes

Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.

Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose-- What is gone is gone.

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?

Lir said, "It is my right. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last." But Schmendrick answered, "This is not the end, either for you or for her.

The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?" (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)

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. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.

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

When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.

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

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

Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.

If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.

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

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

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.

It's not you worries me. The king is a good man, and an old friend, but it has been a long time, and kings change. Even more than other people, kings change.

I will kill you if you set me free, ' the eyes said. 'Set me free.

The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?"(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.

So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)

We don't steal from the rich and give to the poor. We steal from the poor because they can't fight back --most of them-- and the rich take from us because they could wipe us out in a day.

There was nothing for it now but to throw himself on Campos's mercy, and it had been Mr. Rebeck's experience of mercy that it had a tendency to buckle under the weight of a human soul.

I think 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.

The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, only then will you find the tunnel that leads to the Red Bull. There be a trick to it, of course.

I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better.

I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you.Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.

When we go to the fair in disguise, we never win at archery or at singlestick. We do get some nice compliments on our disguises, but no more than that.

I’m a magician with no magic, and that’s no one at all.

And at last she woke up in the middle of one warm night and said, "Yes, but now.

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.

You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no.

Any woman can weep without tears, " she answered over her shoulder, "and most can heal with their hands. It depends on the wound. She is a woman, Your Highness, and that's riddle enough

There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."(King Pelles the Sure)