The Last Unicorn quotes

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King Haggard
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Schmendrick the Magician
Unicorn / Lady Amalthea

View Quote 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!

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

View Quote 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!

View Quote Everything dies! I want to die when YOU die!

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

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

View Quote 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.

View Quote 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!

View Quote 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!

View Quote Magic, do as you will! Magic, do as you will!

View Quote 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.

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

View Quote On his captive unicorns.

View Quote 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.

View Quote Realizing Amalthea had indeed been a unicorn.