Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom… — 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
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination… — 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
The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“The overdressed traveller betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveller knows that the novel world about… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Was it an accident that I saw Fiyero, I wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes, or is it just that… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“What a world I've come up through, said Liir to himself. Oh, what a world, what a world.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Behind every aspect of the world is another aspect of the world.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the… — 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
