Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? Gregory Maguire More Quotes by Gregory Maguire More Quotes From Gregory Maguire I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives. Gregory Maguire eventswatchesworld It was deliciously pagan. Gregory Maguire pagan So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all. Gregory Maguire hunters The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. Gregory Maguire mindmemoriespast He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there. Gregory Maguire coldweather ... 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 between them, on her way to destiny. Gregory Maguire destinyrevolutionway When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it. Gregory Maguire childhoodlightsoul So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste. Gregory Maguire eyehandsworld If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it. Gregory Maguire magiceyesight The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime. Gregory Maguire wickednessdoebreakfast Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow. Gregory Maguire flowsaidconversation 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 one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose. Gregory Maguire crowdustguests 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. Gregory Maguire skinsbluebaby 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. Gregory Maguire malesfemalemind And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet. Gregory Maguire witchwickedlong Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better. Gregory Maguire greedimaginationpractice 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 shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands. Gregory Maguire knittingtwohands Was it an accident that I saw Fiyero, I wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes, or is it just that world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew? Gregory Maguire sawseyeworld The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness. Gregory Maguire wickednessstupiditymen And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done. Gregory Maguire donetogetherbelieve
