Quotes by Gregory Maguire

“We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.”

“Night is brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.”

“Do you expect to learn anything at Shiz?” he asked. “I have already learned not to speak to strangers.” “Then I will introduce myself and we will be strangers no longer. I am Dillamond.” “I am disi...”

“Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across which the sung Masses paint hope in deep impatsi of echo. We make ...”

“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.”

“Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...”

“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...”

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

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