One doesn’t know, necessarily, when one meets the trip-action person in one’s life. A good teacher, a flirt behind the dry-goods counter, a petty thief wielding a knife. Any one of a thousand chance encounters might be the chance of a lifetime. Or a deathtime.

— Gregory Maguire

Gregory Maguire Quotes

There is a limit to the nonsense even a dream can attempt.

— Gregory Maguire

Children surrender nothing when faced with the world: it is the world that gives up, over and over again. By so giving up, of course, it renews itself – that is the secret. Dying in order to live, that sort of thing.

— Gregory Maguire

You’ll be all right,′ Elphaba said, ‘now you’re a seasoned traveler. This is just the return leg of a voyage you already know.’ She put her face against Glinda’s and kissed her. ‘Hold out, if you can,’ she murmured, and kissed her again. ‘Hold out, my sweet.

— Gregory Maguire

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

— Gregory Maguire

Elphaba’s already come back. I saw her last week on the stairs.

— Gregory Maguire

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

— Gregory Maguire

It’s my belief that our lives are stolen from us. Ornamented with pinnate leaves and colored frills, we exist only as a consolation for others. I don’t feel fulfilled. Indeed, some days I scarcely feel at all.

— Gregory Maguire

I rarely trust myself to make statements about truth.

— Gregory Maguire

Lucrezia Borgia couldn’t be moved by the sentiment, nor could she forgive the insult. Old woman. Old.

— Gregory Maguire

I would leave me were I him. I would leave myself if I could.

— Gregory Maguire

We all have our shortcomings, it seems, though some are less visible than others.

— Gregory Maguire

But let me remember what I choose.

— Gregory Maguire

The woman is bad-tempered because she’s terrified.

— Gregory Maguire

When Sister Saint Aelphaba neither confirmed nor denied this plan, Oatsie began to understand why the payment to take the green maunt away had been more than generous.

— Gregory Maguire

Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes our lives less miserable so that we might be more kind – well, then, let’s have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories. We are a sorry tribe of beasts. We need all the help we can get.

— Gregory Maguire

They conducted their love affair in the room above the abandoned corn exchange as the autumn weather came lop-leggedly in from the east: now a warm day, now a sunny one, now four days of cold winds and thin rain.

— Gregory Maguire

Oh, if necessity is the mother of invention, who is the Father? Fantasy.

— Gregory Maguire

Besides, thought the girl, what miracle didn’t look ridiculous while it was happening? If a miracle was ordinary, it would be like, just, so what?

— Gregory Maguire

Those boys and us – we only seem to be sharing a life here. The young are entirely separate. They are someplace else right now. They won’t join us in our lives, really, until they are grown. And by then, who will they become? People I don’t know. And I may not even be here when they get here.

— Gregory Maguire

But then, no one ever experienced anyone else’s life. That was the curse of individuality, and maybe the safety of it, too. The privacy of shame, of regret.

— Gregory Maguire
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