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From Quotes by Gregory Maguire
- When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.
- The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.
- Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.
- As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
- ... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding…
- It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so…
- Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.
- People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want…
- The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.
- Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she…
- What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time…
- Of course. You get everything from books.
- Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that…
- No one is exempt from grief.
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