If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.
Peter S. BeagleIf a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.
Peter S. BeagleI'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybody. Once I quoted it to a friend of mine, and he said, 'Maybe, but the body gets thrown into bed with the goddamnedest people.
Peter S. BeagleWhat is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.
Peter S. BeagleBeyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.
Peter S. Beagle