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It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.
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Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1))
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Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
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Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1))
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Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"
Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: and Through The Looking Glass)
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Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
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Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1))
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We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.
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Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1))
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and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive
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Audre Lorde (The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback))
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People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.
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Andrzej Sapkowski (The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5))
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You really saw some?" Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, "They really...exist?"
"Liz," I whispered back, "they're not unicorns."
"No," Bex said flatly, "they're boys. And they're...good.
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Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
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The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.
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Shel Silverstein
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If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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Patrick Rothfuss