"I could never leave this forest, but I must know if I'm the only unicorn left in the world! Suppose they're hiding together... somewhere far away? What if they're waiting for me? In need of my help? … I must go quickly, and come back as soon as I can."

"Mare? Mare? I — a horse! Is that what you take me for? Is that what you see? … I have forgotten that men cannot see Unicorns. If men no longer know what they're looking at, there may well be other unicorns in the world yet — unknown — and glad of it."

"Do not boast, old woman. Your death sits in that cage, and she hears you."

"Don't look back, and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal; it attracts their attention."

"I can never regret. I can feel sorrow, but it's not the same thing."

"I wish you had let the Red Bull take me! I wish you had left me to the harpy! I can feel this body DYING all around me!"

"But, I am always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished."

"Molly, who am I? Why am I here? What is it that I am seeking in this strange place, day after day? I knew a moment ago, but I have forgotten."

"Everything dies! I want to die when YOU die!"

"Unicorns are in the world again. No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy, save one...and I thank you for that part, too."

"Once, I can't remember, I was long ago, someone strange. I was innocent and wise, and full of pain. Now that I'm a woman, everything has changed. Once, when I was searching, somewhere out of reach, far away, in a place I could not find, or heart obey. Now that I'm a woman, everything is strange."

"I am Schmendrick, the Magician, the last of the Red Hot Swamis!"

"It's a very rare person who is taken for what he truly is."

"You deserve the services of a great wizard, but I'm afraid you'll have to be glad of aid of a second-rate pickpocket."

"Be rary of wousing a wizard's wrath — rousing a rizard's — Be wary of making a magician angry! If I chose, I could turn you into a frog!"

"Magic, do as you will! Magic, do as you will!"

"Oh, God! I'm engaged to a Douglas fir!"

"Haggard has them all now, drifting on the waves to his delight. All but one, and that one is the Lady Amalthea."

"Don't cry. If you have become human enough to cry, then all the magic in the world cannot change you back."

"She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales, and books are written by rabbits."

"There are no happy endings because nothing ever ends."

"You are losing my interest, and that is very dangerous."

"What is the matter with your eyes? Why can I not see myself, in your eyes?"

"There. There they are! There they are!! They're mine! They belong to me! The Red Bull gathered them for me one by one, and I made him drive each one into the sea! Now they live there. And every tide carries them within an easy step of the land, but they dare not come out of the water! They are afraid of the Red Bull. I like to watch them. They fill me with joy. The first I felt it I thought I was going to die. I said to the Red Bull I must have them, all of them, all there are. For nothing makes me happy but their shining and their grace. So the Red Bull caught them. Each time I see the unicorns, my unicorns, it is like that morning in the woods and I am truly young, in spite of myself."

"I know you! I almost knew you as soon as I saw you on the road coming to my door. Since then, there is no movement of yours that has not betrayed you! A pace, a glance, a turn of the head, the flash of your throat as you breathe... even your way of standing perfectly still — they were all my spies!"

"Do you still deny yourself? Do you dare still pretend to be human? I'll hurl you down to the others with my own hands if you dare deny yourself!"

"The last! I knew you were the last!"

"Celaeno: [to the Unicorn] Set me free. We are sisters, you and I."

"Mabruk: [after realizing that the Lady Amalthea is a unicorn] Haggard, I would not be you for all the world. You have let your doom in by the front door, but it will not depart that way! Farewell, poor Haggard!"

"Rukh: This here is the manticore. A man's head, a lion's body, tail of a scorpion. Creatures of night, brought to light. Here is a dragon. Breathes fire now and then. Mostly people who poke it, little boy. Its inside an inferno, but its skin so cold, it burns! Speaks 17 languages badly and is subject to gout. Creatures of night, brought to light! The Satyr. Ladies, keep back!"

"The Cat: No cat out of its first fur was ever deceived by appearances, unlike human beings, who seem to enjoy it."

"The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, only then will you find the tunnel that leads to the Red Bull. There be a trick to it, of course."

"The Skull: To get to the Red Bull's chamber, you have to walk through time. A clock isn't time, it's just numbers and springs. Pay it no mind."