Gregory Maguire Quotes

It’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.

In the end, all disguises must drop.

This is what fun is like," said Rain, almost to herself.

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.

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...?