The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious. Gregory Maguire More Quotes by Gregory Maguire More Quotes From Gregory Maguire We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isn’t as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness Gregory Maguire grief character dirty Oh now that's a blueprint for an impossibly rosy future Gregory Maguire blueprints rosy Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly. Gregory Maguire brightness decay wells We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of burning neuroses acting ourselves wicked. And nothing to be done about it. And nothing to be done about it. Gregory Maguire twists wicked acting 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 many ways, depending on who is doing the telling, and what needs to be heard at the time. It is a matter of history, however, that shortly thereafter, the Wizard absconded from the Palace. He left in the way he had first arrived-- a hot-air balloon-- just a few hours before seditious ministers were to lead a Palace revolt and to hold an execution without trial. Gregory Maguire glasses air heart 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. Gregory Maguire moonlight hero heart The storm dropped a house on her head. Gregory Maguire storm house Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key? Gregory Maguire cages locks keys She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go. Gregory Maguire leaving littles world I learned failure early and mastered it. Gregory Maguire You confuse not speaking with not listening. Gregory Maguire listening Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience. Gregory Maguire long-time awful long So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure. Gregory Maguire erode magic stories ...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs. Gregory Maguire eye heart laughing I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found. Gregory Maguire rolling flying tasks 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 Gregory Maguire struggle winning lying When I began 'Wicked', I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that there should ever be a follow up, because the subtitle was 'The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West'. She was dead and gone, as the book says, at the end. Gregory Maguire dead end life book I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest. Gregory Maguire person some comic heart I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have a dead mother or a lost parent. Gregory Maguire dead parent mother character My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee. Gregory Maguire anything like music natural
