Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.
Tags: song, poetry

Other Quotes by "Peter S. Beagle"

She came very close, and looking into my eyes, she said, “My Jenny,” and then she bent her head and kissed me—here, on the left-hand corner of my mouth. And nobody knows better than I that I couldn’t have felt anything, because Tamsin was a ghost—but nobody but me knows what I felt. And I’ll always know.
Tags: love-quotes, love, ghosts
Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)
Tags: happiness, envy
You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.
Tags: night, forever, death, cold
Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?
Tags: death, beauty
But the important thing is for you to understand that it doesn't matter whether the clock strikes ten next, or fifteen o'clock. You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you can understand that -- then any time at all will be the right time for you.
Tags: wisdom, unicorn, the-last-unicorn, peter-s-beagle, love-life, lessons-in-life, confidence-makes-you-beautiful
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