To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies. Gregory Maguire More Quotes by Gregory Maguire More Quotes From Gregory Maguire Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last Gregory Maguire small-steps lasts stills Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being. Gregory Maguire humility children world No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not. Gregory Maguire wise home war Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? Gregory Maguire devil struggle doe I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood. Gregory Maguire evil mean blood Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through. Gregory Maguire blind light dark We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Gregory Maguire uplifting baby funny Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. [...] We don't get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our licence to return to simpler times. Sooner or later, there's no place remotely like home. Gregory Maguire growing-up home adventure But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see. Gregory Maguire filled-up eye home I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter. Gregory Maguire new-year hate years [Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda] Gregory Maguire population wife mean She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference. Gregory Maguire differences evil might The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you get- the more specifically you harvest- the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm. Your life and times don’t drain of meaning because they become more contradictory, ornamented by paradox, inexplicable. The less explicable, the more meaning. The less like a mathematics equation (a sum game); the more like music (significant secret). Gregory Maguire live-your-life secret games They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love. Gregory Maguire lust expression love This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction. Gregory Maguire wicked falling-in-love love-is ...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little. Gregory Maguire little-love littles love It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement. Gregory Maguire retiring despite retirement The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious. Gregory Maguire capricious momentum mind I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out. Gregory Maguire leaving mind way I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories. Gregory Maguire care stories thinking
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