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Molly’s husband and the leader of a group of vagabond horsemen, Cully enjoys writing songs about his own adventures and exploits so that the world will remember him in a heroic light. When Jack Jingly captures Schmendrick and brings him to Captain Cully’s camp, Cully keeps Schmendrick tied up and forces him to listen to his songs.
Captain Cully Quotes in The Last Unicorn
The The Last Unicorn quotes below are all either spoken by Captain Cully or refer to Captain Cully. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4 Quotes
“She guards me better than I do myself. I am generous and easy; to the point of extravagance, perhaps. […] It is only natural that Molly should become suspicious, pinched, dour, prematurely old, even a touch tyrannical. […] But she’s a good heart, a good heart.”
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Chapter 5 Quotes
“Do as you will,” he whispered to the magic. “Do as you will.”
It sighed through him, beginning somewhere secret—in his shoulder blade, perhaps, or in the marrow of his shinbone. His heart filled and tautened like a sail, and something moved more surely in his body than he ever had. It spoke with his voice, commanding.
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Chapter 6 Quotes
Then she saw the unicorn. She neither moved nor spoke, but her tawny eyes were suddenly big with tears. For a long moment, she did not move; then each fist seized a handful of her hem, and she warped her knees into a kind of trembling crouch. […]
“Where have you been?” she cried. “Damn you, where have you been?”
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Captain Cully Character Timeline in The Last Unicorn
The timeline below shows where the character Captain Cully appears in The Last Unicorn. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 5
Jack Jingly brings Schmendrick back to the horsemen’s camp, where he meets their leader, Captain Cully, and Cully’s wife, Molly Grue. Though Molly distrusts Schmendrick, Cully offers him a taco. Schmendrick...
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To avoid hearing more of Cully’s songs, the other horsemen press Schmendrick to perform his magic. Schmendrick pulls off easy tricks,...
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