Quotes by Gregory Maguire

“This is what fun is like," said Rain, almost to herself.”

“Well, I learned to cook. At my age," she told him. "What's next? Art therapy? Anyway, I've had quite a time of it this summer, and who knows what eases down on any road. Come, Rain. A quick goodbye...”

“He was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consolin...”

“The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-...”

“I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.”

“He lingered at the door, and said, 'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you wan”

“In the end, all disguises must drop.”

“So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.”

“The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.”

“When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.”

“You can't be said to have properly established yourself in a place until you have been seen there.”

“Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore.”

“In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.”

“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 t...”

“I think that's shameful, even if it's just a story, to propose an afterlife for evil... Any afterlife notion is a manipulation and a sop. It's shameful the way the unionists and the pagans both kee...”

“Its been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.”

“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 ...”

“I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.”

“Of course. You get everything from books.”

“O beautiful, to make escapeAnd leave this world behind.Had I to stay another dayI'd lose my fucking mind!”