He had foreseen every such change in his fortune, ignored it always, and called the refusal innocence. - Peter S. Beagle

love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal,

Anyway, since you and I must choose one road to follow, out of the many that run to the same place in the end, it might as well be a road that a unicorn has taken. We may never see her, but we will always know where she has been. Come, then. Come with me.
So they began their new journey, which took them in its time in and out of most of the folds of the sweet, wicked, wrinkled world, and so at last to their own strange and wonderful destiny.

I will kill you if you set me free,' the eyes said. 'Set me free.