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Gregory Maguire Quote: “So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one’s.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “It’s the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It’s where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Always you were drawn to the composite creatures, the broken and reassembled, for that is what you are.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “We stand at a crossroads. Idolatry looms. Traditional values in jeopardy. Truth under siege and virtue abandoned.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Her sister’s shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Don’t wish,“said Rain, “don’t start. Wishing only...”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Everyone dies. It’s a question of where and how, that’s all.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Or is it just that the world upwraps itself to you, again and again, as soon as you’re ready to see it anew?”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Your life story is really about how the hands of history caught you up, played with you, and you with them. History plays for keeps; individuals play for time. When.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Some realities are too onerous to be borne by nations, let alone by children.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly’s in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear to her yet.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Being born with a talent or an inclination for goodness is the aberration.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “She wondered, faintly, if it was immoral to raise children in the habit of hope. Was it not, in the end, all the harder for them to adjust to the reality of how the world worked?”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “She would emerge. She always had before. The punishing political climate of Oz had beat her down, dried her up, tossed her away – like a seedling she had drifted, apparently too desiccated ever to take root. But surely the curse was on the land of Oz, not on her. Though Oz had given her a twisted life, hadn’t it also made her capable?”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Not everyone can fly by bubble !”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “How poetic you are,” she said. “I’ve a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Oh, everything is gorgeous once it’s gone.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “History is a long time in the making.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “No, she wasn’t losing language. She was choking on it.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective. Even a bowed mirror works primarily by engaging the eyes, and she who centers herself in its surface is unlikely to notice anyone in the background who lacks a certain status, distinction.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling porcupine,” she crooned. “Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Yes, I’m nervous. You’ll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they’re wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life, and the older you get – the more specificity you harvest – the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless youre really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “The story is told in so many ways, depending on who is doing the telling, and what needs to be heard at the time.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “And in the cave there lived a wicked old witch. Did she ever some out? Not yet.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “The beauty of the day is the only thing that doesn’t fade in time. Day after day, such beauty revives itself.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “I don’t like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Sooner or later we grow into deserving our own deaths, somehow.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Tarde o temprano, a todos nos alcanza el rayo.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven’t wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “We are an experiment in situation ethics set by the unnamed god.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Lost is not an address, it’s not permission to fail, it’s not an excuse.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “All these last months he had begun to talk about Sarima and the family as if they were ghosts, hiding just around the curve of the spiral staircase in the tower, suppressing giggles at this long, long game of hide-and-seek.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know it in your conscience.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don’t forget we loved it when we were alive.”
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