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Gregory Maguire Quote: “Sooner or later we grow into deserving our own deaths, somehow.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Every child makes its peace with abandonment. That’s called growing up.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “The answer of course, is that the clock isn’t meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.”
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.”
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: “It’s the work that’s important, not the individual who does it.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “She wasn’t afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him “Yero, my hero,” and that melted his heart.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on – or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “What’s missing from the literature of our species are the stories of the peasants. The filthy illiterate. Those with no firm address, no surname. No one to impress, nothing to lose. But the poor tell stories, too.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “That’s the beginning of heroism, the decision to try.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “The woman is bad-tempered because she’s terrified.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “How could anyone live without flying?”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “The surface of the shoes seemed to pulse with hundreds of reflections and refractions. In the firelight, it was like looking at boiling corpuscles of blood under a magnifying glass.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “As Solomon said in the Old Book, if two women squabble over which of them is the mother of a certain infant, the way to solve the problem is to cut the baby in half and share the baby in parts.” “That’s revolting.” “Is it? I always wondered if that baby was a colicky brat and both women were really trying to pawn it off on the other one.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Her voice is hoarse. She’s caught a catarrh from that dreadful draft.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “That’s all I want- to do no harm.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “I never write a book unless I can’t help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Marmalade has to make its own way in life, like the rest of us, she thought.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Her head had turned away quickly as she stepped down, not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Lucrezia Borgia couldn’t be moved by the sentiment, nor could she forgive the insult. Old woman. Old.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “You might forget a story, but you can never unhear a story.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “If you’re ever dragged from your chambers at midnight, blindfolded and gagged, without being told whether you’re off to a firing squad or a surprise birthday party, you’ll find that you turn and return to that pivotal moment.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “The master is bringing Darwin through to examine lower life-forms, Rhoda. Straighten your spine or you’ll be mistook for a mollusk.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate,” said Elphaba. “See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “There was something about words and music together that allowed people to get nearest to honest truth about what was most difficult to say. Paradoxically, only through the essential instantaneity of music could you approach its eternal pertinence.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Stinging words! You re critical of everyone,” observes Iris. “Oh, not everyone,” says Clara in an offhand manner. “Only everybody who’s alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Listen, we’re all trapped in our own lives. You, me, everyone we’ve ever met.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Those born dull remain dull.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. ‘I knit handcuffs as a hobby,’ explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. ‘Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Furniture!” bellowed the witch. “Tables, bathtub, the lot of you. It’s time to go out in the world and seek your fortunes, if that’s your hope.” There was a crashing sound as all the furniture went and tried to hide under the bed, and the bed tried to hide under itself.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Besides, thought the girl, what miracle didn’t look ridiculous while it was happening? If a miracle was ordinary, it would be like, just, so what?”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “But the pinkness and whiteness of underskirts and camisoles, the frilliness of foundation garments, the rustle about the bustle and the fuss about the bust.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Day after day in the season of disaster, it can be hard to recognize a chance in fortune when it comes.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “You know our Alice. She plays hide-and-seek but sometimes forgets to ask someone to look for her.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Such silly things, children – and so embarrassing – because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “It isn’t whether you do it well or ill, it’s that you do it all.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Perplexity isn’t as noble as conviction, but perhaps more good is done in the name of muddling through uncertainty than is done hacking away with the righteous sword of self-confidence.”
Gregory Maguire Quote: “Well, your opinion is as good as hers, I think,” said Elphaba. “That’s the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?”
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