Omar Kooheji

“Several of the dogs never returned, for Schmendrick had developed a quick hand and a taste for mongrel”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“When I look at my country as it is now - its trade gone, its factories silent, its harbours empty, a prey to pauperism and decay - when I see all this, and think what Great Britain was in my youth, I ask myself whether I have really a heart or any sense of patriotism that I should have witnessed such degradation and still care to live!”
― George Tomkyns Chesney, The Battle of Dorking

“But our people could not be got to see how artificial our prosperity was-that it all rested on foreign trade and financial credit; that the course of trade once turned away from us, even for a time, it might never return; and that our credit once shaken might never be restored.”
― George Tomkyns Chesney, The Battle of Dorking

“I wish you could be a princess for a little while, or a flower, or a duck.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn