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The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.
Peter S. Beagle
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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the eternal embrace of a red oak. Always, always, it sighed, faithful beyond any man's deserving. I will keep the color of your eyes when no other in the world remembers your name. There is no immortality but a tree's love.
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What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.
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Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.
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...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
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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)
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They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.
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The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
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Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, 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.
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The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.
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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.
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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.
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I love whom I love, Prince Lir repeated firmly. You have no power over anything that matters.
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I fear it, for her sake. It would mean that she too is a wanderer now, and that is a fate for human beings, not for unicorns. But I hope, of course I hope.
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