He sighed, telling himself that the inevitable is a great blessing to — Peter S. Beagle

"When I was very young every grownup was a hero. Its been all downhill since then, and I have only two left."

"The Unicorn Sonata … tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if wed only open our eyes — and our ears — to find it."

"What am I always telling you, big girl? Never bet on anything except human stupidity."

"“She’s a lady,” I says, “for all she’s a Portygee, and you’re no more a gentleman than that monkey in your mango tree. Money don’t make such as us into gentlemen, Henry Lee. All it does, it makes us rich monkeys. You know that, same as me.”"

"Sometimes, in those nights when the dreams and memories I cannot always tell apart anymore keep me awake, I try to imagine what my life would have been if I had actually carried my plan through. Different, most likely. Shorter, surely."

"Kings need jugglers, jugglers don’t need kings…"