It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow. Gregory Maguire More Quotes by Gregory Maguire More Quotes From Gregory Maguire Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval! Gregory Maguire aberration cat looks Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. Gregory Maguire impermanence temporary needs Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other. Gregory Maguire sorrow loneliness names Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way. Gregory Maguire forgiving way The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man. Gregory Maguire devil angel men I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one. Gregory Maguire real doubt monsters Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only... Gregory Maguire wish said rain There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's. Gregory Maguire mines people To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward. Gregory Maguire half dark lost What goes unnamed remains hard to correct. Gregory Maguire remains hard Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem of a flower. This way the meadows, that way the woodland. Over here, the baryn's estate, out there, the hills that hug the known world close and imply a world at beyond. She could never come up with the edge of a world, because it always kept going on beyond. She moved the center of the world as she walked. The world was balanced on her head. Gregory Maguire hug flower life Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful. Gregory Maguire hard-times math two I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch. Gregory Maguire mosquitoes writing book He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome. Gregory Maguire religious struggle love ...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals. Gregory Maguire liberty soul children We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls. Gregory Maguire lapses plot soul Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars. Gregory Maguire shoes stars blood It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness. Gregory Maguire possibility too-much long That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother? Gregory Maguire real art thinking 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 it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind. Gregory Maguire sloth understanding writing
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