5th most-quoted character in The Last Unicorn (1982): in 4 of its 61 quotes
Most scenes with: Schmendrick the Magician (3), Unicorn / Lady Amalthea (2), Molly Grue (2)
You were dreaming, my Lady.
But I am always dreaming, even when I am awake! It is never finished. I will not trouble you, my Lord Prince.
Trouble me, please, trouble me! I would court you with more grace, if I knew how. I only wish you wanted something of me..
Drown out my dreams! Keep me from remembering, whatever wants me to remember 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.
Amalthea, don't...
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.
Yes, that is my wish.
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.
But what if there isn't a happy ending?
There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.
Schmendrick, let her stay the way she is. Let her be...
That's not in the story. Lír knows that, and so does she.
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.
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.
I wish I could see her just once more, so I could tell her all that's in my heart. She will never know what I really meant to say.
She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits. Of all unicorns, she is the only one who knows what regret is — and love.
