Quotes from Gregory Maguire

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

Anyone who can be home anywhere really has no home at all.

How like a spoon with a razor edge is human need.

Eu nunca uso as palavras humanista ou humanitário, pois me parece que ser humano significa ser capaz dos crimes mais hediondos da natureza.

History crawls along on the peg legs of small individual lives," said Frex, "and at the same time larger eternal forces converge. You can't attend to both arenas at once." "Our child may not have a small life.

But she knew better than to trust the false hope of the holidays.

The wind was picking up, and the Scarecrow shivered.

It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.

Elphie though: Such silly things, children - and so embarrassing - because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

Your faith can inoculate you against despair.

A bird in the house is a sign someone will die soon.

The rafiqi advised caution, advised return to the camp; but childhood in the Quadling badlands had made Elphaba not only bold, but curious. There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors.

Woe is the natural end of life, yet we go on having babies.

Everyone wants to get something, everyone has something to give.

Lo que pervive en la memoria de la gente es más verdadero que el arte de un poeta para contarlo. En la memoria popular, el mal siempre antecede al bien.

And a recipe on this page. It says 'Of apples with black skin and white flesh: to fill the stomach with greed unto Death.

No es mi intención ser impertinente. Yo sólo intento aprender.

Can you really say you thought the man who brought this here was a sorcerer? said Elphie. And that this book comes from - another world? Do you even believe in other worlds? I find it a great effort to believe in this one, said Sarima, yet it seems to be here, so why should I trust my skepticism about other worlds? Don't you believe?

In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.

Is it the sheer nature of the beast within, the human animal inside the Human Being?

The heels of military boots, striking marble floors, made a sound like thrown stones.

He was hungry without yet knowing that hunger could be slaked by food; he was lonely without yet knowing that loneliness could be slaked, too.

He has added inches and fullness to his beard since his last visit. I'll say no more.

Cuando los tiempos son un crisol, cuando la crisis está en el aire, aquellos que conservan su propia identidad son las víctimas.