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 More Quotes by Gregory Maguire More Quotes From Gregory Maguire They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field. Gregory Maguire green-fields together blue 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. Gregory Maguire cost guilt home She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she. Gregory Maguire long-ago long It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame. Gregory Maguire causes heart thinking A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a thief or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist. Gregory Maguire labels able men In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats. Gregory Maguire growing-up men children It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new. Gregory Maguire bereavement bitter loneliness The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar. Gregory Maguire light moon rose Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity Gregory Maguire queens space evil If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die. Gregory Maguire being-the-best might way ...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it. Gregory Maguire patterns different thinking The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret. Gregory Maguire dragons real evil People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. Gregory Maguire wicked long people It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself? Gregory Maguire birth monsters world ...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes or lives less miserable so that we might be more kind-well, then, lets have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories. Gregory Maguire wall hanging-on might Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions. Gregory Maguire wicked-the-musical lost giving The world was floods above and fire below Gregory Maguire fire flood world To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows Gregory Maguire irises might people His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully. Gregory Maguire angel suicide home ...I dabble in causes and effects. Gregory Maguire effects cause-and-effect causes
