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28455aa Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color. Gregory Maguire
ef19d79 Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only..." rain wicked wish Gregory Maguire
ea90644 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
1986426 Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force. Gregory Maguire
d4620a0 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
ff930bb I am a forgettable leaf on a tree. Gregory Maguire
a1d79d4 That's all I want- to do no harm. Gregory Maguire
20460f2 There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit. Gregory Maguire
9b033bb Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art. Gregory Maguire
174a062 And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Gregory Maguire
8b3a9e3 What the hell are you doing up there?' So he slipped, of course, because he was startled, and because fate, having been so kind to him as to award him this ecstasy, retributively was going to kill him now. He lost his footing and grabbed for the chimney but missed. Head over thighs he rolled out like a child's toy, smashed into the poking branches of the damn pear tree, which probably saved his life, breaking his fall. He landed with a thud.. Gregory Maguire
55bb351 quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking. Gregory Maguire
21a199e Love makes hunters of us all. Gregory Maguire
5d0714d She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go. Gregory Maguire
89a4d5c 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
37495d0 Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is. fantasy wicked Gregory Maguire
86fc218 It was deliciously pagan. Gregory Maguire
3ac9957 It's over the garden wall and we're going to see the Wizard, come what may and hell to pay. -Elphaba Gregory Maguire
d63497a And in the cave there lived a wicked old witch. Did she ever some out? Not yet. Gregory Maguire
fff70b1 What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trism lived in Liir's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary.. longing lost-love love wicked Gregory Maguire
afac31f One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her -- is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions. philosophy wicked witch Gregory Maguire
11e7c62 Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.. Gregory Maguire
5534944 The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man. devil man Gregory Maguire
1bf1b69 Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is. immortality Gregory Maguire
7b3b720 And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done. Gregory Maguire
3320b5d Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all. Gregory Maguire
00ae21b Or is it just that the world upwraps itself to you, again and again, as soon as you're ready to see it anew? Gregory Maguire
c651f71 How shallow the words are, really - . One might as well say, , thinks Iris; that about covers the same terrain, doesn't it? Gregory Maguire
2030796 Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone. Gregory Maguire
45a920e The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious. mind-thoughts mood moody think thinkers thinking Gregory Maguire
e0fe033 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. doubts monsters Gregory Maguire
e392873 If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die. Gregory Maguire
4f2e6a3 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
99051f7 Horrors. Gregory Maguire
7b3d1e9 He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others. Gregory Maguire
1bd4b18 Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better. Gregory Maguire
675fbc7 We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production. Gregory Maguire
207e27e The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition. Gregory Maguire
6aff9d0 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
084c649 Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction. Gregory Maguire
a965dc6 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 .. Gregory Maguire
4f60694 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
728fe28 The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build. Gregory Maguire
f2f5255 The fairytale belongs to the poor. I know of no fairytale which upholds the tyrant or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairytale is an absurdity. Gregory Maguire