Life Quotes by Gregory Maguire

One plus one equals both.

— Gregory Maguire

“She seems to float in a life next to ours, with limited contact.”

— Gregory Maguire

“And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.”

— Gregory Maguire

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

— Gregory Maguire

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

— Gregory Maguire

“How truly novel. The emotional life of furniture. I never.”

— Gregory Maguire

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

— Gregory Maguire

No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.

— Gregory Maguire

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

— Gregory Maguire

“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

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

Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

— Gregory Maguire

“Being vulnerable to desolation also arises from being unable to picture a set of choices with which to change your lot in…

— Gregory Maguire

“How many times in a life, he thought, will I lie down in a darkness whose character I cannot imagine, to see…

— Gregory Maguire

“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

“You have your own life to live, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God…

— Gregory Maguire

“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

While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the…

— Gregory Maguire

All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are…

— 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

When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing,…

— Gregory Maguire

“The division of one day from the next must be one of the most profound peculiarities of life on this planet. It…

— Gregory Maguire

He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could…

— Gregory Maguire

I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm…

— Gregory Maguire

“The boy does well enough," said Vicente. "A goose does not ask much of life, after all." "No," she admitted. "Those who…

— Gregory Maguire

“What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on…

— Gregory Maguire

Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals…

— Gregory Maguire

...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer.…

— Gregory Maguire

“What the hell are you doing up there?' So he slipped, of course, because he was startled, and because fate, having been…

— Gregory Maguire

“Why should I keep myself so safe?” he asked her, but he was almost asking himself. What is there in my life…

— Gregory Maguire

The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you…

— Gregory Maguire

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

— Gregory Maguire

“I am alive. But I'm not that girl. I'm a woman grown from a life broken in the middle.”

— Gregory Maguire

“He had no other plans for the rest of his life. He followed her.”

— Gregory Maguire

“Don't fasten on Dorothy. Only unanswerable longing lies down that road. Gone is gone.”

— Gregory Maguire

“And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment…

— Gregory Maguire

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination…

— Gregory Maguire

“What more does one ask of life, really, but to stagger from moment to moment with a reason to wake and wait…

— Gregory Maguire

...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit…

— Gregory Maguire

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