You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change your heart into green grass, and all you love into a sheep. I'll turn you into a bad poet with dreams.

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.

The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.

Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn.

Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

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

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.