There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

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

Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

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.

Sing to me," she said. "That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and it will be useful as well. Sing to me, sing loudly-drown out my dreams, keep me from remembering whatever wants me to remember it. Sing to me, my lord prince, if it please you. It may not seem a hero's task, but I would be glad of it.

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.