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)

there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.

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.

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.

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

Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!

What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?