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What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself? — Gregory Maguire

She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear to her yet. — Gregory Maguire

You know our Alice. She plays hide-and-seek but sometimes forgets to ask someone to look for her. — Gregory Maguire

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all. — Gregory Maguire

Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them. — Gregory Maguire

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life. — Gregory Maguire

Boq sat down, and shook his head, as if bewildered by the apparition of Elphaba. — Gregory Maguire

He had no other plans for the rest of his life. He followed her. — Gregory Maguire

Now he was the minister and she the sinner, an arrangement she did not particularly enjoy. — Gregory Maguire

What a world I've come up through, said Liir to himself. Oh, what a world, what a world. — Gregory Maguire

Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly. — Gregory Maguire

How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[ ... ]None of us breaks free. — Gregory Maguire

Though who knows the architecture of the mind, and whether the arches that open upon discrete episodes are ordered in any way sequentialy? — Gregory Maguire

She looked as if she'd swallowed an assortment of her own hangnails. — Gregory Maguire

How could anyone live without flying? — Gregory Maguire

I know this: The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness, she said. — Gregory Maguire

Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad. — Gregory Maguire

And there the wicked old witch stayed for a good long time ... And did she ever come out? ... Not yet. — Gregory Maguire

Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction. — Gregory Maguire

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. — Gregory Maguire

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. — Gregory Maguire

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be. — Gregory Maguire

Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it? — Gregory Maguire

All green things brown. — Gregory Maguire

Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way. — Gregory Maguire

I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood. — Gregory Maguire

I never talk about the end game." He winked at her. "I've lived so long without death that I've stopped believing in it. — Gregory Maguire

How she wanted to put away adult things and go back to seeing through a looking-glass, darkly. — Gregory Maguire

How truly novel. The emotional life of furniture. I never. — Gregory Maguire

So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all. — Gregory Maguire

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing. — Gregory Maguire

Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless. — Gregory Maguire

Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color. — Gregory Maguire

How brave that had made her feel, and how vulnerable too. — Gregory Maguire

belongs. I can't afford so much as a footman to scour Saint Petersburg." "You must afford it. It is said, 'One — Gregory Maguire

You always had an eye for the fellow with a decent helping of sausage and hard-boiled eggs. — Gregory Maguire

After all, what kind of a life is it that is not pestered by insects? A perfect one, and since life is not perfect, this cannot be life. — Gregory Maguire

At least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder — Gregory Maguire

Don't fasten on Dorothy. Only unanswerable longing lies down that road. Gone is gone. — Gregory Maguire

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence. — Gregory Maguire

I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out. — Gregory Maguire

At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change. — Gregory Maguire

Sometimes I think that vengeance is habit forming too. A stiffness of the attitude. — Gregory Maguire

Perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most. — Gregory Maguire

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. — Gregory Maguire

You confuse not speaking with not listening. — Gregory Maguire

The reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it. — Gregory Maguire

There was much to hate in this world and too much to love. — Gregory Maguire

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree. — Gregory Maguire

Where shall I say you've gone?"
She threw an arm about airily. "Oh, way up high. Over the rainbow somewhere, I guess. — Gregory Maguire

In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified. — Gregory Maguire

When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil, and maybe splits apart and multiplies. — Gregory Maguire

The world pauses for royalty and deformity alike, and sometimes one can't tell the difference. — Gregory Maguire

Given a long enough time, of course, a wide enough frame, there is nothing said or done, ever, that isn't ironic in the end. — Gregory Maguire

My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee. — Gregory Maguire

You charming idiot. — Gregory Maguire

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness. — Gregory Maguire

I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest. — Gregory Maguire

So young, he knew nothing about aerodynamics, except how the heart could lift and lift. — Gregory Maguire

She claims they give her moral virtue too, but then she has buckets more of that than she needs. — Gregory Maguire

She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go. — Gregory Maguire

To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward. — Gregory Maguire

Noon is a disguise of whiteness put on by the eternal Night behind it. — Gregory Maguire

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

Liir held Chistery in his lap and sobbed into his scalp. Chistery said, "Well, we'll wail while woe'll wheel," and he cried along with Liir. — Gregory Maguire

Whimsy is fate, too: just less knowable. — Gregory Maguire

They hadn't come so far just to be turned away because of adolescent radicalism. — Gregory Maguire

It's over the garden wall and we're going to see the Wizard, come what may and hell to pay.
-Elphaba — Gregory Maguire

Frex had a notion that she wasn't sorry to see him go off from time to time, so that she could be glad to see him come back. — Gregory Maguire

Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming. — Gregory Maguire

She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she ... — Gregory Maguire

Such silly things, children - and so embarrassing - because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. — Gregory Maguire

You give me dyspepsia, Avaric. You and the beans we had at lunch. — Gregory Maguire

Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last — Gregory Maguire

It's heaven to know that it's still possible to run, though she doesn't know what she's running from. — Gregory Maguire

When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking. — Gregory Maguire

Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive. — Gregory Maguire

What more does one ask of life, really, but to stagger from moment to moment with a reason to wake and wait for the next reason to wake? — Gregory Maguire

Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents. — Gregory Maguire

You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle. — Gregory Maguire

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say. — Gregory Maguire

He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there. — Gregory Maguire

Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child. — Gregory Maguire

Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish to hell he'd go away. — Gregory Maguire

But there was the mirror in which I would glimpse his handsome form, because mirrors don't lie about men, only women. — Gregory Maguire

Hens were wandering about like ladies at a lyceum tea trying to find their friends before selecting their seats. — Gregory Maguire

They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field. — Gregory Maguire

Good gracious, dear, all of life is a spell. You know that. — Gregory Maguire

Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice
just policy — Gregory Maguire

Is that, in the end - that capacity to hurt - the most essential ingredient for a ruler? — Gregory Maguire

And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe. — Gregory Maguire

You can't criticize the size of a world. — Gregory Maguire

You lost your copper as well as your faith in wishes, and prayers. — Gregory Maguire

Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them. — Gregory Maguire

It never is the who, is it? It's always the why. -Elphaba — Gregory Maguire

Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger
— Gregory Maguire

You can endure any sort of prison if you can apprehend a window in the dark. — Gregory Maguire

No one is exempt from grief. — Gregory Maguire

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace. — Gregory Maguire

history takes a long time to happen. — Gregory Maguire