Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, but not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else — what do they look to one another, then? What do trees look like to them, or houses, or real horses, or their own children?

Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

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.

This creature is the Pooka. Pay no mind to the shape he wears, for he’s none of his own, and no soul either. Ware him ever, trust him never, but when the wind’s right he has his uses. Never forget that you will never know him. The Pooka’s mystery even to the Pooka.

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.