Gregory Maguire

The world was floods above and fire below

— Gregory Maguire

That's all I want- to do no harm.

— Gregory Maguire

One plus one equals both.

— Gregory Maguire

“How could anyone live without flying?”

— Gregory Maguire

I learned failure early and mastered it.

— Gregory Maguire

For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

— Gregory Maguire

What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.

— Gregory Maguire

The storm dropped a house on her head.

— Gregory Maguire

“The wall read: ELPHIE LIVES OZMA LIVES THE WIZARD LIVES and then EVERYONE LIVES BUT US.”

— Gregory Maguire

“All paths lead to the same place, and that place is whatever comes next.”

— Gregory Maguire

[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]

— Gregory Maguire

“The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments," said Frex.”

— Gregory Maguire

“You lie, cheat and steal and call it courtesy, cunning and thrift.”

— Gregory Maguire

“The eye is always drawn to light, but shadows have more to say.”

— Gregory Maguire

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

— Gregory Maguire

“Woe is the natural end of life, yet we go on having babies.”

— Gregory Maguire

“When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis,” she said, “those who are the most themselves are…

— Gregory Maguire

“It's over the garden wall and we're going to see the Wizard, come what may and hell to pay. -Elphaba”

— Gregory Maguire

She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!" What?" She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!" Well, that's…

— Gregory Maguire

“When a scarecrow blows apart in a gale wind, the farmer just props up another one. It’s the job to be done…

— Gregory Maguire

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after…

— Gregory Maguire

“A plot, whether abandoned by a reader or pursued rapturously, remains itself, and gets where it is headed even if nobody is…

— Gregory Maguire

“Tell me to mind my own business, tell me to go fuck myself, to piss, off, go on, say it, but don’t…

— Gregory Maguire

“Liir held Chistery in his lap and sobbed into his scalp. Chistery said, "Well, we'll wail while woe'll wheel," and he cried…

— Gregory Maguire

“He is a boy, just as boys are. A little dull, maybe, but he hasn't had the advantages we've had.' 'Which are?'…

— Gregory Maguire

“(from the short story The Honorary Shepherds)...you can't be kicked out of a faith. Faith starts inside your heart and ends up…

— Gregory Maguire

“Aren't these the finest treasures? Each one springs up, and becomes more red than rubies, more fine than diamonds adn more valuable,…

— Gregory Maguire

Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to…

— Gregory Maguire

“Animals in pens have lots of time to develop theories", said the Cow, "I've heard more than one clever creature draw a…

— Gregory Maguire

“Do you expect to learn anything at Shiz?” he asked. “I have already learned not to speak to strangers.” “Then I will…

— Gregory Maguire

“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

The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through…

— Gregory Maguire

“Only he with the hobbled foot knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can appreciate what the sweetest…

— Gregory Maguire

“A notion of character, not so much discredited as simply forgotten, once held that people only came into themselves partway through their…

— Gregory Maguire

“The unvisited grannies, in stone houses by the wheat field, can't remember their husbands or children. They worry their hands, though, hands…

— Gregory Maguire

“Is there a relative value of beauty? Is evanescence - fleetingness - a necessary element of the thing that most moves us?…

— Gregory Maguire

You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda…

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“You know, Boq,' she said, 'the thing is I have become fond of Galinda myself. Behind her starry-eyed love of herself there…

— Gregory Maguire

The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side…

— Gregory Maguire

“Now this is this, or seems to be. When you're haunted by any variety of effective nonsense, like love or guilt or…

— Gregory Maguire