- Molly: No, it can't be. Can it be? Where have you been? Where have you been? Damn you! Where have you been?
- Schmendrick: Don't you talk to her that way!
- Unicorn: I'm here now.
- Molly: 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]
- Schmendrick: Can you really see her? Do you know what she is?
- Molly: If you had been waiting to see a unicorn, as long as I have...
- Schmendrick: She's the last unicorn in the world.
- Molly: It would be the last unicorn that came to Molly Grue. It's all right, I forgive you.
- Schmendrick the Magician: 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.
- Unicorn: You are a true wizard now, as you always wished. Does it make you happy?
- Schmendrick: Well, men don't always know when they're happy. But I-I think so. And you?
- Unicorn: I am a little afraid to go home. I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am no longer like the others, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I now I do. I regret.
- Schmendrick: I am sorry. I have done you evil and I cannot undo it.
- Unicorn: No. Unicorns are in the world again. No sorrow will live in me with that joy-save one. And I thank you for that part, too. Farewell good magician. I will try to go home.
- The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, only then will you find the tunnel that leads to the Red Bull. There be a trick to it, of course.
- Molly Grue: Why won't you help me? Why must you always speak in riddles?
- The Cat: Because I be, what I be. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, mum, but I be a cat. And no cat anywhere, ever gave anyone a straight answer.
- Butterfly: Listen. Don't listen to ME, listen. You can find the others if you are brave. They passed down all the roads long ago, and the Red Bull ran close behind them and covered their footprints. Listen! Listen, listen QUICKLY!
- Unicorn: [agitated] I AM listening! Where did they go and what is the Red Bull?
- Butterfly: Listen! LISTEN!
- [insane laughter]
- Butterfly: The king is in his counting house, counting out, counting out, counting...
- King Haggard: I like to watch them. They fill me with joy. The first I felt it I thought I was going to die. I said to the Red Bull I must have them, all of them, all there are. For nothing makes me happy but their shining and their grace. So the Red Bull caught them. Each time I see the unicorns, my unicorns, it is like that morning in the woods and I am truly young, in spite of myself.
- Mommy Fortuna: The harpy's as real as you are, and just as immortal. And she was just as easy to catch, if you want to know.
- Unicorn: Do not boast, old woman. Your death sits in that cage, and she hears you.
- Mommy Fortuna: Oh she'll kill me one day or another. But she will remember forever that *I* caught her, and *I* held her prisoner. So there's my immortality, eh?
- Schmendrick: Oh, she should never have meddled with a real harpy! Or a real unicorn for that matter. Because the truth melts her magic, always.
- Schmendrick: The magic chose the shape, not I. I am a bearer, I am a dwelling, I am a messenger...
- Molly: You are an idiot! Do you hear me? You LOST her! You trapped her in a human body! She'll go MAD!
- The Cat: No cat out of its first fur was ever deceived by appearances, unlike human beings, who seem to enjoy it.
- The Skull: [after drinking imaginary wine from an empty bottle] That was the real stuff! That was wine!
- Mabruk: Haggard, I would not be you for all the world. You have let your doom in by the front door, but it will not depart that way! Farewell, poor Haggard!
- King Haggard: [the castle is crumbling and Haggard is about to fall to his death] The last! I knew you were the last!
- Unicorn: Illusions, deceptions, mirages! Your Mommy Fortuna cannot truly change things!
- Schmendrick: That is true. She can only disguise, and only for those eager to believe whatever comes easiest. She cannot turn cream into butter, but she can make a lion look like a manticore to eyes that want to see a manticore. Just like she put a false horn on a real unicorn so they can see the unicorn.
- Schmendrick: Don't cry. If you have become human enough to cry, then all the magic in the world cannot change you back.
- [Schmendrick has turned the Unicorn into a mortal woman]
- Unicorn: I can feel this body DYING all around me!
- Molly Grue: Please! Please do something!
- Schmendrick the Magician: 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.
- Amalthea: Once, I can't remember, I was long ago, someone strange. I was innocent and wise, and full of pain. Now that I'm a woman, everything has changed. Once, when I was searching, somewhere out of reach, far away, in a place I could not find, or heart obey. Now that I'm a woman, everything is strange.
- Butterfly: Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.
- The Tree: [Tree comes to life] Oh. Oh. Oh I love you. I love you. Love love love love love.
- Schmendrick: Oh, what have I done?
- The Tree: Always. Always. Faithfulness beyond any man's deserving.
- [Schmendrick's nose gets caught in cleavage]
- The Tree: I will keep the color in your eyes when no other in the world remembers your name. There is no immortality but a trees love.
- Schmendrick: Oh, God. I'm engaged to a Douglas Fir. Help, Unicorn! Where are you?
- [a farmer thinks the unicorn is a white mare, infuriating her]
- Unicorn: [furious] Mare? MARE? I? A HORSE? Is THAT what you take me for? Is THAT what you see?
- Schmendrick: I can't do this very much longer. He had me juggling teacups all night long. Teacups! With tea in them!
- The Butterfly: They passed down all the roads long ago. And the Red Bull ran behind them, and covered their footsteps.
- Hunter #2: Unicorns? I thought they only existed in fairytales. This is a forest, like any other... isn't it?
- Hunter #1: Then why do the leaves never fall here? Or the snow? Why is it always spring here? I tell you there is one unicorn left in the world, and as long as it lives in this forest we'll find no game to hunt here.
- Unicorn: Say my name then. If you know my name, tell it to me.
- The Butterfly: [quoting Romeo & Juliet] Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name...!
- Unicorn: Say it, if you know.
- The Butterfly: Rumpelstiltskin! Gotcha!
- Prince Lir: Unicorn, mermaid, sorceress... no name you could give her would surprise OR frighten me. I love whom I love.
- Schmendrick: Well, that's a very nice sentiment, but when I change her back into her true self...
- Prince Lir: I love whom I love.
- Prince Lir: [singing] I've had time to write a book about the way you act and look, / But I haven't got a paragraph. / Words are always getting in my way. / Anyway, I love you. That's all I have to tell you. / That's all I've got to say. / And now I'd like to make a speech about the love that touches each, / But stumbling I would make you laugh. / I feel as though my tongue were made of clay. Anyway, I love you. That's all I have to tell you...
- Schmendrick: Mommy Fortuna doesn't think so. She sees me as a clumsy fraud, a trickster. But I am Schmendrick the magician, last of the red hot swamis. And I, too, am real... like you. Like her.
- Schmendrick: [looks at her] Yes, I will help you.
- Unicorn: Where's the other man?
- Schmendrick: Ruhk? Oh, don't worry about him. Oh, don't worry about him. I asked him a riddle, and it always takes that lout all night to solve riddles. And now...
- [he starts practicing]
- Schmendrick: Shara sineverel morlin sudai! Suni numira eddi subai!
- The Skull: To get to the Red Bull's chamber, you have to walk through time. A clock isn't time; it's just numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.
- The Skull: Ask me how to find the Red bull
- [chuckles]
- The Skull: even Prince Lir doesn't know the secret way... but I dooo
- [chuckles]
- Schmendrick: Oh you do eh? Answer the riddle then, tell us the way.
- The Skull: Say pleeeaaase.
- Schmendrick: [sighs] Please.
- The Skull: [slight pause] No!
- Amalthea: [singing] Once, I can't remember. / I was long ago, someone strange. / I was innocent and wise, and full of pain. / Now that I'm a woman, / Everything is strange.
- Amalthea: [speaking] I must go to him. I must face the Bull again and discover what he has done to them, before I forget who I am forever. But, I don't know where to find him, and... I'm lonely...
- Amalthea: [singing again] Once, when I was searching, / Somewhere out of reach, far away, / In a place I could not find, or heart obey. / Now that I'm a woman, / Everything has changed. / Everything has changed. / Everything has changed.
- King Haggard: I know you! I almost knew you as soon as I saw you on the road coming to my door. Since then, there is no movement of yours that has not betrayed you! A pace, a glance, a turn of the head, the flash of your throat as you breathe... even your way of standing perfectly still - they were all my spies!
- Unicorn: There has never been a time without unicorns. We live forever! We are as old as the sky, old as the moon! We can be hunted, trapped; we can even be killed if we leave our forests, but we do not *vanish*. Am I truly the last?
- Unicorn: I have forgotten that men cannot see Unicorns. If men no longer know what they're looking at, there may be other unicorns in the world yet, unknown, and glad of it.
- Unicorn: Or is the story of the Red Bull just another of his songs? I can't leave the forest, but I must know if I'm the only unicorn left in the world. What if they're hiding together... somewhere far away? What if they're waiting for me? In need of my help?
- The Unicorn: I'm looking for others like me. Have you seen them, Magician?
- Schmendrick: No, I've never seen anyone like you. Not while I was awake, anyway.
- Schmendrick: Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.
- Unicorn: You may come with me if you like, though I wish you'd asked for some other reward for having freed me.
- Schmendrick: Well, I thought about it, but you could never have granted my true wish.
- Unicorn: No. I cannot turn you into something you are not. I cannot turn you into a true magician.
- Schmendrick: That's all right, don't worry about it.
- Unicorn: I'm not.
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