Lovely quotes from The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

"Her voice left the flavor of honey and gunpowder in the air"

"His chuckle sounded like matches striking."

"There was the smell of lightning about the unicorn when the woman had finished her spell."

"He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man--untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom."

" The spider's web drew the onlookers eyes--back and forth and steadily deeper, until they seemed to be looking down into the great rifts of the world, black fissures that widened remorselessly and yet would not fall into pieces as long as Arachne's web held the world together."

"I'll stuff you with misery until it comes out of your eyes. I'll turn you into a bad poet with dreams."

"Under the shrunken sky there was nothing real but the two of them."