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.

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?

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

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

What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?

You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.