Quotes from Gregory Maguire

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

Whispering can disguise the shape of syllables, but not of mood.

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

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 disinclined to know you.

Gossip is instructive," said the Wizard. "It tells which way the wind is blowing.

Some realities are too onerous to be borne by nations, let alone by children.

You need my help? What for? Bread, cash, a fake identity to help you slip sideways through the cracks? Tell me what you need, tell me why I should help, and I'll see what I can do. In memory of Elphaba. You knew her. Her head titled again, but up, this time, and it was to keep the sudden wetness from spilling into her carefully colored false eyelashes. You knew my Elphie!

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

The colossal might of wickedness, he thought: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

Öyle insansever, hay?rsever gibi sözcükler kullanmam ben. Bence insan olmak demek tabiatta iÅŸlenebilecek en iÄŸrenç cinayetleri iÅŸlemeye muktedir olmak demektir.

DoÄŸuÅŸtan bir yeteneÄŸin varsa ya da doÄŸuÅŸtan iyiliÄŸe eÄŸilimin varsa... Sonunda akl?n? kaç?r?yorsun.

The mister days that letters are the key, but even when you know the whole family, there's so many combinations you can make. And they break their word.

After all is said and done," said the Dormouse, "there is nothing to be done. Or said.

The eye is always drawn to light, but shadows have more to say.

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, and off you go. Goodbye, said Rain to the Lion, and then to the woman. Not to them, said Glinda, To me. She turned eyes that were saucerly upon Glinda. Mum?

To the grim poor there need be no pourquoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never learns 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...?

Perhaps every accidental cluster of people has a short period of grace, in between an initial shyness and prejudice on the one hand and eventual repugnance and betrayal on the other.

I'm a priest, I know better than most when a lie is permitted.

Die Wahrheit lässt sich nach Geschmack gestalten Denn Wahrheit ist, was alle dafür halten!

We are the next thing the Time Dragon is dreaming, and nothing to be done about it.

It's just that 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.

Being born with a talent or an inclination for goodness is the aberration.

You have your own life to live, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows.

The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light.