“She seems to float in a life next to ours, with limited contact.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“I am alive. But I'm not that girl. I'm a woman grown from a life broken in the middle.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Don't fasten on Dorothy. Only unanswerable longing lies down that road. Gone is gone.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“He had no other plans for the rest of his life. He followed her.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“You have your own life to live, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“It's just that that was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“How many times in a life, he thought, will I lie down in a darkness whose character I cannot imagine, to see… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Being vulnerable to desolation also arises from being unable to picture a set of choices with which to change your lot in… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“But is life worth living in the wrong form?” said Elphie. “The interior doesn’t change,” she answered, “except by self-involvement. Of which… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“What more does one ask of life, really, but to stagger from moment to moment with a reason to wake and wait… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“What is there that makes my life worth preserving? “I love you,” said Elphaba. “So that’s that then, and that’s it,” he… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“The boy does well enough," said Vicente. "A goose does not ask much of life, after all." "No," she admitted. "Those who… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“If the unlettered farmers of Munchkinland and the factory workers of Gillikin believe that their fate is being determined by how the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
When I began 'Wicked', I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“What the hell are you doing up there?' So he slipped, of course, because he was startled, and because fate, having been… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Why should I keep myself so safe?” he asked her, but he was almost asking himself. What is there in my life… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I‚Äôd rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of anger: hot and cold. Boys and girls experience both, but as they grow up the anger separates according to… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share
No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share
“I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share
“How many times in a life, he thought, will I lie down in a darkness whose character I cannot imagine, to see what daybreak… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share
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… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share
I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share
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,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share
I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share
“Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share
“You always had an eye for the fellow with a decent helping of sausage and hard-boiled eggs.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share
“You need my help? What for? Bread, cash, a fake identity to help you slip sideways through the cracks? Tell me what you need,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share
