“He had no other plans for the rest of his life. He followed her.” — 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
...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
“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
“And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment… — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness. — 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
“The division of one day from the next must be one of the most profound peculiarities of life on this planet. It… — 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
“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
“By so giving up, of course, it renews itself- that is the secret” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way. — 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 Image
“Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
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 Image
“I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.” — 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 what daybreak… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
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 Image
I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
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 Image
“At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
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 Image
