Humor Quote by Peter S. Beagle — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I am no king, and I am no lord,”

“Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe,”

“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.”

“I will miss it so,” she said beside him. “This hell of a place, I will miss it so much. This fat body, walking mud puddle, deceived by everything, this impossible, ruinous accident of a world, these people who would truly rather hurt one another than eat—oh, there is nothing, nothing, nothing I would not do to stay here ten minutes longer. Oh, I will leave claw marks, I will drag mountains and forests away under my fingernails when I am dragged off. Such a stupid way to feel. I will be all dirty from clutching at this stupid planet, and the gods will laugh at me.”

“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?”

“Joshua's ministry was three years of preaching, sometimes three times a day, and although there were some high and low points, I could never remember the sermons word for word, but here's the gist of almost every sermon I ever heard Joshua give.”

“I don't like to think of it as 'stolen'. They have no proof that I didn't plan on giving it back.”

“It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -”

“Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.”

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

“The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.”