You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like you.

...no place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?

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.

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.

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)