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Famous Gregory Maguire Quotes
“Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.”
“at least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder”
“You confuse not speaking with not listening.”
“She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.”
“Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?”
“The storm dropped a house on her head.”
“Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.”
“The world was floods above and fire below”
“I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.”
“...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.”
“How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[...]None of us breaks free.”
“How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.”
“There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.”
“No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.”
“Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.”
“If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.”
“The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.”
“The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.”
“...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.”
“Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.”
“Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!”
