We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.

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

If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.