Gregory Maguire Quotes

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

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

And it’s a cold place the world, especially when warmed by arsen.

The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.

In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.

Oh now that’s a blueprint for an impossibly rosy future

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven’t wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.

Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we’re lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out.

The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.

They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.

Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity

The answer of course, is that the clock isn’t meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.