Peter S. Beagle Thinking Quotations

But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me — me, Jenny Gluckstein — like that. Not my parents, not Julian, not even Meena. Love is one thing — recognition is something else.

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

...because in a way it happened to someone else. I don't really speak that person's language anymore, and when I think about her, she embarrasses me sometimes, but I don't want to forget her, I don't want to pretend she never existed. So before I start forgetting, I have to get down exactly who she was, and exactly how she felt about everything. She was me a lot longer than I've been me so far.

A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.