Peter S. Beagle

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#mortality #love

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#love

The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?" (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel) ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#shame #sin #love

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#humor #music #humor

I love whom I love. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#love

I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again? ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#world #life

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#ravens #nature

How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings? ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#death

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#love #love

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#books #dreams #heroes #imagination #reading