I read "The Last Unicorn" today, in like an hour. Sam let me borrow it because I've never seen the movie or read the book. Oh my god is it ever good!! You'd think, oh kids book, yeah it's good, but not serious. No, there's so many things in it to think about if you really read it. I'm gonna write some of the quotes I liked, just because, that way I'll have them when I have to give the book back. "We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream. Still I have read, or heard it sung, that unicorns when time was young, could tell the difference 'twixt the two - the false shining and the true, the lips' laugh and the heart's rue." ~Schmendrick "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain - What is gone is gone. What is sea-born dies on land, Soft is trod upon. What is given burns the hand - What is gone is gone. Here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone. Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose - What is gone is gone." ~Song By Mommy Fortuna/Elli and Molly Grue "One always hopes, of course, even now - to be collected, to be verified, annotated, to have variant versions, even to have one's authenticity doubted...well, well, never mind. Sing the other songs, Willie lad. You'll need the practice one day when you're field recorded." ~Captain Cully "I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. No one dares to cherish What I choose to crave. Never have I hungered, That I did not have. I am a king's daughter, And I grow old within The prison of my person, The shackles of my skin. And I would run away And beg from door to door, Just to see your shadow Once, and never more." ~Lir's Princess/Amalthea "What is it that is happening to me? What is it that is happening to me? I cannot tell whether to be glad or be afraid. What is it that is happening to me?" ~Lir "What is the matter with your eyes? They are full of green leaves, crowed with trees and streams and small animals. Where am I? Why can I not see myself in your eyes?" ~Haggard "If I danced with my feet As I dance in my dreaming, As graceful and gleaming As Death in disguise - Oh, that would be sweet, But then would I hunger To be ten years younger, Or wedded, or wise?" ~Molly Grue "I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself to someone for a long time, and still remember why you are waiting when she comes at last." ~Lir "Your face is wet. I hope that's spray. If you've become human enough to cry, then no magic in the world - oh, it must be spray. Come with me. It had better be spray." ~Schmendrick "When I was alive, I believed - as you do - that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls...But the important thing is for you to understand that it doesn't matter whether the clock strikes ten next, or seven, or fifteen o'clock. 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." ~Skull Sentinel "You are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact. Let it end here then, let the quest end. Is the world any the worse for losing the unicorns, and would it be any better if they were running free again? One good woman more in the world is worth every single unicorn gone. Let it end. Marry the prince and live happily ever after." ~Schmendrick "But the true secret of being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock at the witch's door when she is away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story." ~Lir "I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full." ~Schmendrick "A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last." "This is not an end, either for you or for her. You are the king of a wasted land where there has never been any king but fear. Your true task has just begun, and you may not know in your life if you have succeeded in it, but only if you fail. As for her, she is a story with no ending, happy or sad. She can never belong to anything mortal enough to want her." ~Lir and Schmendrick "I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, though I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret." ~Amalthea/Unicorn Holy shit that's a lllooonnnggg entry, but hey I like it, and if you actually read them, and didn't skip them all, congrats. Read the book, see the movie, enjoy. Later.