Molly Grue No, it can't be. Can it be? Where have you been? Where have you been? Damn you! Where have you been?
Don't you talk to her that way!
Molly Grue And where were you twenty years ago? Ten years ago? Where were you when I was new? When I was one of those innocent young maidens you always come to? How dare you! How dare you come to me now, when I am this! [Weeps]
Can you really see her? Do you know what she is?
Molly Grue If you had been waiting to see a unicorn, as long as I have...
She's the last unicorn in the world.
Molly Grue It would be the last unicorn in the world that came to Molly Grue. … It's all right, I forgive you.
Molly Grue [as the Red Bull attacks the unicorn]
Please! Please do something!
What can I do? Do you think the Red Bull likes card tricks? If I could, I would change her into some other creature, some beast too humble for the Bull to be concerned with. But that would take a real magician with real magic, and I can't pretend anymore...
Molly Grue But you do. You have magic. Maybe you can't find it, but it's there. You called Robin Hood, and there is no Robin Hood. You have all the power you need if you dared to look for it.
Lír! Don't let him change me! The Red Bull has no care for human beings. We may walk out past him and get away!
If we do that, then all the unicorns of the world will remain prisoners forever, except one, and she will grow old and die.
Everything dies! I want to die when you die. [looks at Lír] I'm no unicorn, no magical creature. I'm a woman, and I love you! Don't let him! Lír, I will not love you when I'm a unicorn.
Then let the quest end here! I don't think I could change you back, even if you wished it. Marry the prince, and live happily ever after.
No. My lady, I am a hero, and heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever. A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.
Molly Grue But what if there isn't a happy ending?
There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.
Molly Grue Schmendrick, let her stay the way she is. Let her be...
That's not in the story. Lír knows that, and so does she.
Molly Grue You don't care! You don't care what happens to her or to the others, just so you become a real magician, at last. You don't care —
Well I wish I didn't care! I wish to God I didn't care about anything but my magic! But I do! I do.
Lír [as the Red Bull chases the Unicorn]: Do something! You have the power! I will kill you if you don't do something.
I cannot, not all the magic in the world can help her now.
Molly Grue Then what is magic for? What is the use of wizardry if it cannot even save a unicorn?
That's what heroes are for.
Of course — that is exactly what heroes are for.
