Heart Quotes by Gregory Maguire

Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.

— Gregory Maguire

“But this was fancy; she was succumbing to fancy in a way she hadn't done before.”

— Gregory Maguire

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

— Gregory Maguire

It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.

— Gregory Maguire

“What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine.”

— Gregory Maguire

“...and Ama Clutch was gone, and the overly subordinate pillowcase took a small spill of human juice from the edge of her…

— Gregory Maguire

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the…

— Gregory Maguire

Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our…

— Gregory Maguire

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm,…

— Gregory Maguire

...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but…

— Gregory Maguire

But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called…

— Gregory Maguire

... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't…

— Gregory Maguire

“Glinda was changed. She knew it herself. She had come to Shiz a vain, silly thing, and she now found herself in…

— Gregory Maguire

I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the…

— Gregory Maguire

So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction…

— Gregory Maguire

What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that…

— Gregory Maguire

It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is…

— Gregory Maguire