Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

...no place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.

Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits.

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

I absolutely love low-key restaurants.

Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking]

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.

I'd like to have a kid, but I'd probably get a Frank Sinatra Jr. instead of a Gilbert Gottfried Jr. I'd totally screw up like that.

Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with.

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.