{"quotes":[{"text":"When a unicorn is slain, men have destroyed again the image of beauty that they seek.","author":"Nicholas Stuart Gray","tags":["beauty","magic","unicorns"],"id":2417,"author_id":"Nicholas+Stuart+Gray"},{"text":"Simple spells were light and fun, like a good joke. This spell was as simple as a symphony and as splendid. After adding the last runes, I swirled power through the old spells ensuring they merged with the new spells. The entire castle of spells flexed with the added power, my sign to retreat and hope it worked. Watching the spells bend and move was captivating. One moment they were crawling over each other looking for structure and the next they'd formed a fortress of magic seeking targets, calling them home....'Jones?'Right behind you.' He walked around to my left. 'How'd it go?'Good. Really good.'I can tell. You're glowing.'I thought he was joking until I glanced at my hand. I had to look like a giant firefly. 'Narselfart!' He laughed. 'Don't worry about it. It's kinda' cute. Besides, those boys' - he jerked his head to indicate the younger cops - 'aren't ever going to forget this power show.","author":"N. E. Conneely","tags":["brownies","dwarves","elves","mystery","spells","suspense","trolls","unicorns","witches"],"id":2691,"author_id":"N.+E.+Conneely"},{"text":"I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, or if they had changed so that they hated all unicorns now and tried to kill them when they saw them. But not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else-what do they look like to one another, then? What do trees look like to them, or houses, or real horses, or their own children?","author":"Peter S. Beagle","tags":["change","forget","forgetting","forgotten","hate","kill","men","unicorns"],"id":3104,"author_id":"Peter+S.+Beagle"},{"text":"Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows.","author":"William Faulkner","tags":["stars","unicorns"],"id":15807,"author_id":"William+Faulkner"},{"text":"We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["70s","elves","family","love","magic","old-fashioned","rare","siblings","superstition","the-70s","the-seventies","twins","unicorn","unicorns"],"id":65732,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"Enjoyed the ride?' Janis asked, sarcasm in her voice. 'I never thought you'd actually be scared of flying.''Well, it's not everyday I ride unicorns to parallel worlds,' I muttered.","author":"Deepika Kumaaraguru","tags":["fantasy","unicorns"],"id":80798,"author_id":"Deepika+Kumaaraguru"},{"text":"THE UNICORN: The saintly hermit, midway through his prayersstopped suddenly, and raised his eyes to witnessthe unbelievable: for there before him stoodthe legendary creature, startling white, thathad approached, soundlessly, pleading with his eyes.The legs, so delicately shaped, balanced abody wrought of finest ivory. And ashe moved, his coat shone like reflected moonlight.High on his forehead rose the magic horn, the signof his uniqueness: a tower held upright by his alert, yet gentle, timid gait.The mouth of softest tints of rose and grey, whenopened slightly, revealed his gleaming teeth,whiter than snow. The nostrils quivered faintly:he sought to quench his thirst, to rest and find repose.His eyes looked far beyond the saint's enclosure,reflecting vistas and events long vanished,and closed the circle of this ancient mystic legend.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["fairy-tales","mythology","unicorns"],"id":121352,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns.","author":"Patrick Rothfuss","tags":["draft","unicorns","writing"],"id":132864,"author_id":"Patrick+Rothfuss"},{"text":"Yes. The elven magi are very old, but not old enough to remember that all of this has happened before.” Parmida frowned. “Just how old are you?”“I am older than a thousand of your suns,” the unicorn answered.“. . . And that means?","author":"Ash Gray","tags":["fantasy","humor","unicorns"],"id":140522,"author_id":"Ash+Gray"},{"text":"For the first time, they were seeing the dream beneath the flesh.Karla stared at the pointed ears that had come from the Dea al Mon, the hands with sheathed claws that had come from the Tigre, the hooves peeking out from beneath the black gown that could have come from the centaurs or the horses or the unicorns. Most of all, she stared at the tiny spiral horn.The living myth. Dreams made flesh. But, oh, had any of them really thought about who the dreamers had.","author":"Anne Bishop","tags":["black-jewels","black-jewels-trilogy","centaurs","dreamers","dreams","dreams-made-flesh","horses","jaenelle","jaenelle-angelline","karla","queen-of-the-darkness","the-black-jewels-trilogy","unicorns","war","witch","witches"],"id":162894,"author_id":"Anne+Bishop"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}