Gregory Maguire: Trending quotes (page 2)

“No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.”

“Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.”

“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.”

“The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.”

“Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.”

“I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose.
I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.”

“That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.”

“I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.”

“Approval is overrated… Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.”

“In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.”

“They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.”

“Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.”

“There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors”

“I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.”

“The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.”

“If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.”

“Always the bridesmaid, never the bride."
Always the godfather, never the god".”

“Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.”

“It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.”