Peter S. Beagle People Quotations

I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybody. Once I quoted it to a friend of mine, and he said, 'Maybe, but the body gets thrown into bed with the goddamnedest people.

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.

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

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

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