You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.

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

I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.

What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.

But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move and speak and eat my dinner. I remember what cannot have happened, and forget something that is happening to me know. People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—