What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.

Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.

For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and shambled like an ape doing a trick, and her face was the silly, bewildered face of a joker's victim. And yet she could make no move that was not beautiful. Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it.

There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

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

...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.

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