If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
... 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 Copy Share Image
I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as… — 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
“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
