Gregory Maguire quotes - page 3

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness. (Gregory Maguire)
Even God used silence as a strategy. View quote
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature. View quote
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Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars. View quote
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A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible. View quote
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However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again. View quote
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It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame. View quote
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Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it. View quote
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. View quote
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In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them. View quote
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. (Gregory Maguire)
There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's. View quote
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The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. View quote
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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way. View quote
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But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart. View quote
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The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief. View quote
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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow. View quote
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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it. View quote
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He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there. View quote
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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all. View quote
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Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly. (Gregory Maguire)
Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life. View quote
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Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense. View quote
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You're fun to look at," decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion. View quote
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How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. View quote
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