The Last Unicorn Quotes
"You are very beautiful. You are just as beautiful as our mothers said."
"The magic knows what it wants to do, but I never know what it knows."
"No one has ever traveled with me, but then no one ever caged me before."
"Fear nothing, for all my air of mystery, I have a feeling heart."
"Walk slowly, and pretend to be thinking of something else. Sing a song, say a poem, do your tricks, but walk slowly and she may not follow."
"She is a myth, a memory, a will-o’-the-wisp."
"I am Schmendrick the Magician, and I make a bad enemy."
"You deserve the services of a great wizard, but I'm afraid you'll have to be glad of the aid of a second-rate pickpocket."
"He who hunts me for my head shall find a fearful foe, but he who seeks me as a friend may find me friend enow."
"The bright balloon needs the knot at one end."
"Whatever can die is beautiful—more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world."
"The hero has to make a prophecy come true, and the villain is the one who has to stop him—though in another kind of story, it's more often the other way around."
"I am a bearer, I am a dwelling, I am a messenger."
"You have all the power you need, if you dare to look for it."
"The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart."
"I turned you into a human being to save you from the Red Bull. There was nothing else I could do."
"A unicorn is only loping when she leaves the hunter kicking his burst and sinking horse."
"I am myself still. This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me."
"Nothing but evil has happened to me since I left my forest, and nothing but evil can have become of unicorns in this country."
"I am a king's daughter, And I grow old within The prison of my person, The shackles of my skin."
"Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space—that’s the way life was meant to be."
"It’s not enough to be ready to see—you have to be looking all the time."
"Matter can neither be created nor destroyed, not by most magicians, anyway."
"You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that—then any time at all will be the right time for you."
"I’ve had time to think. I know what wine is like. Give it to me."
"I remember more than wine. Give me a swallow, that’s all—give me a sip—and I’ll taste it as you never will, with all your runny flesh, all your buds and organs."
"You’re more of a magician than I took you for. Do you understand me now, about time?"
"I think I understand, but I’m sure I don’t. I’ll try."
"I know where we have to go, and that’s as good as knowing the time any day."
"Before Lír, this was all barren desert where nothing grew—nothing. It was said that the country was under a curse."
"The land was so glad to see him that it began blooming and blossoming the moment he became king."
"He never could resist the plea of a maiden in distress, the more difficult and dangerous the deed, the better."
"Just looking at it, you can see that the king is a nice man."
"Lír is a hero. Remember that, whatever else you see, whatever you think."
"You wanted a fortress. You were expecting dark stone towers, flags and cannons and knights."
"It is what I am for. You know that as well as he does."
"Better that death—better this, better any death—than the one he was dying in that chair."
"I have often been of some use to princesses in distress. Command me."
"There are some monsters that only a king can kill."
"I will give you a present, but you are not to open it until the day when you turn seventeen."
"Beautiful things will always want to see you again, Sooz, and be listening for you."