"It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love,……" — Gregory Maguire
"It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new."
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Gregory Maguire
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201 Quotes by Gregory Maguire
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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes,…
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That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.
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...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of…
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I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her…
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Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.
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I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more…
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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which…
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It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you.…
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
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All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.
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If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of…
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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory…
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