01c. 1954 ADThanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across which the sung Masses paint hope in deep impatsi of echo. We make of the hollow world a fuller, messier, prettier place, but all our inventions can't create the one thing we require: to deserve any fond attention we might accidentally receive, to receive any fond attention we don't in the course of things deserve. We are never enough to ourselves because we can never be enough to another. Any one of us walks into any room and reminds its occupant that we are not the one they most want to see. We are never the one. We are never enough.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
02c. 1954 ADHer head had turned quickly away...Not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
03c. 1954 ADI 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.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
06c. 1954 ADWell, 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?Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
07c. 1954 ADHe was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
08c. 1954 ADHe lingered at the door, and said, 'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you wanGregory Maguire / quote ↗
10c. 1954 ADSo let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
11c. 1954 ADThe world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
12c. 1954 ADWhen you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
13c. 1954 ADYou can't be said to have properly established yourself in a place until you have been seen there.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
14c. 1954 ADNothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
15c. 1954 ADIn order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
16c. 1954 ADBut his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
17c. 1954 ADI think that's shameful, even if it's just a story, to propose an afterlife for evil... Any afterlife notion is a manipulation and a sop. It's shameful the way the unionists and the pagans both keep talking up hell for intimidation and the airy Other Land for reward.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
18c. 1954 ADIt’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
19c. 1954 ADPeople always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
20c. 1954 ADThe story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
21c. 1954 ADI like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.Gregory Maguire / quote ↗
