Maguire Quotes & Sayings

Inside our heads there is a space which is completely blank. It holds no memories and has no thoughts. Antoinette wanted to find that place for once there, the world no longer has the power to hurt. She wanted to curl up in the cocoon of her bedding until that time came and never have to face reality again. — Toni Maguire

But this was fancy; she was succumbing to fancy in a way she hadn't done before. — Gregory Maguire

So young, he knew nothing about aerodynamics, except how the heart could lift and lift. — Gregory Maguire

Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming. — Gregory Maguire

Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone. — Gregory Maguire

Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me? — Gregory Maguire

You charming idiot. — Gregory Maguire

And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe. — Gregory Maguire

He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there. — Gregory Maguire

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings. — Gregory Maguire

There is no backstory in dream. Time slips all its handcuffs. So: — Gregory Maguire

A little bird told me," said the Lion. — Gregory Maguire

What no one tells the young is to be careful of their childhoods. The memories from those days are the most compelling paintings in the mind
to which, with nostalgia or dread, you must ever return. — Gregory Maguire

At least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder — Gregory Maguire

Or is it just that the world upwraps itself to you, again and again, as soon as you're ready to see it anew? — Gregory Maguire

It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it. — Gregory Maguire

I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose.
I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered. — Gregory Maguire

Are you the dart?" he said. "Are you the knife? The fuse?" She said (though he wasn't convinced): "My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad ... — Gregory Maguire

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. — Gregory Maguire

To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows — Gregory Maguire

Indeed. Oh, and Fal?"
"Yeah?"
"Get laid, while you're up there, won't you?"
"Oh, God."
"Seriously. Your hymen's going to grow back, it's been so long. Have a fling. It might lighten you up."
"Goodbye, Rache."

Meg Maguire, The Reluctant Nude — Meg Maguire

The 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

belongs. I can't afford so much as a footman to scour Saint Petersburg." "You must afford it. It is said, 'One — Gregory Maguire

Your name is Rain, isn't it? Rain slips in the cracks and slides through the seams. You can do it? Can't you? — Gregory Maguire

bent ostentatiously to her work. — Gregory Maguire

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace. — Gregory Maguire

Of course. You get everything from books. — Gregory Maguire

You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level. — Tobey Maguire

Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind. — Gregory Maguire

The beauty of the day is the only thing that doesn't fade in time. Day after day, such beauty revives itself. — Gregory Maguire

A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a theif or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist. — Gregory Maguire

Good gracious, dear, all of life is a spell. You know that. — Gregory Maguire

That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same. — Gregory Maguire

I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness. — Gregory Maguire

It's more convenient to have a hero waiting in the wings than to endure a blowhard standing in the spotlight. — Gregory Maguire

Such silly things, children - and so embarrassing - because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. — Gregory Maguire

The storm dropped a house on her head. — Gregory Maguire

It is existentially, hyperbolically, quintessentially unknowable. — Gregory Maguire

Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow. — Gregory Maguire

I'm very lucky with the people that recognise me - it's at a very tolerable level. I don't think I could handle the level of recognition which David Beckham has. — Sean Maguire

The family was still hard-pressed for money, and dreamed of savory treats to eat, but they had the warmth of one another, and enough on which to live, and in most parts of the world that is called plenty. — Gregory Maguire

I had written children's books for 14 years before I published 'Wicked.' And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed. — Gregory Maguire

The wall read:
ELPHIE LIVES
OZMA LIVES
THE WIZARD LIVES
and then
EVERYONE LIVES BUT US. — Gregory Maguire

I 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

He had no other plans for the rest of his life. He followed her. — Gregory Maguire

The alien girl - she called herself Dorothy - was by virtue of her survival elevated to living sainthood. The dog was merely annoying. — Gregory Maguire

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

Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing.
If one could drown in the grass ... it might be the best way to die. — Gregory Maguire

She couldn't hep but think abut the loss of her father, and how such a condition became constat, like an appendage or tumor. Hello, this is I, and these my arms and legs, wich are useful, and this inconvenient hump is my sorrow, which is less that useful, but I've learned how to hump it about with me, so pay it no mind. — Gregory Maguire

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats. — Gregory Maguire

One never knows 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? It is the very least question of definitions. — Gregory Maguire

You need my help? What for? Bread, cash, a fake identity to help you slip sideways through the cracks? Tell me what you need, tell me why I should help, and I'll see what I can do. In memory of Elphaba. You knew her." Her head titled again, but up, this time, and it was to keep the sudden wetness from spilling into her carefully colored false eyelashes. "You knew my Elphie! — Gregory Maguire

Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad. — Gregory Maguire

I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have a dead mother or a lost parent. — Gregory Maguire

Always the godfather, never the god, — Gregory Maguire

The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or spells can lead to completely unforseen behavior: e.g., see the story, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Neither study is easy: " ... her [Galinda's] early appetite for sorcery had waned once she'd heard what a grind it was to learn spells and, worse, to understand them." from the book "Wicked" by G. Maguire. — Richard E. Pattis

I'm not into sugar for kids, but you don't want your kid to be the carrot kid. There's always the kid at the birthday parties carrying a bag of carrots. You've got to let them eat a little cake. — Tobey Maguire

It is one of those stories that you just want to keep going and going - even after the last page has been reached.
Kristie Leigh Maguire — Vicki M. Taylor

history takes a long time to happen. — Gregory Maguire

Noon bells sang out with their usual ignorance of mood, marking out moments of grief and worry, elation and confusion. The bells said that at its core, human life was fundamentally a sort of organic clockwork, while the winds and skylarks that swept against the sound of metronomic iron timekeeping argued for variety, subtlety, epiphany. — Gregory Maguire

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be. — Gregory Maguire

Think of egg and spoon. If there is an egg, well, fine. You eat. Unless you use your spoon to hold the egg out of my reach. Does being in possession of a spoon give you more right to the egg? — Gregory Maguire

But, being unable to decide yes, she decided no. — Gregory Maguire

Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them. — Gregory Maguire

Have you ever been heartbroken to finish a book? Has a writer kept whispering in your ear long after the last page is turned? — Elizabeth Maguire

When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated! — Rachel Tucker

Perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most. — Gregory Maguire

Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless you're really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful. — Gregory Maguire

How she wanted to put away adult things and go back to seeing through a looking-glass, darkly. — Gregory Maguire

Marmalade has to make its own way in life, like the rest of us, she thought. — Gregory Maguire

She had that look a child has only a few times in its life, when the child has bettered her betters. The expression isn't smug, though adults often take it for smugness. It's something else. Maybe relief at having confirmed through personal experience the long-held suspicion of our species, that the enchanted world of childhood is merely a mask for something else, a more subtle and paradoxical magic.
- p. 157 — Gregory Maguire

All men think they're great kissers. Just like you think you're the only decent driver on the road."
"Maybe, but I am. Amazing kisser. Dangerously amazing. Your panties would, like, disintegrate, I'm such an awesome kisser. — Meg Maguire

Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled, ... it is Art. — Gregory Maguire

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true ... we call it history. — Gregory Maguire

There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit. — Gregory Maguire

She lived and breathed, Brrr knew, with a high tolerance for detachment - like a lake jellyfish floating in a glass casket, oblivious of japing crowds. — Gregory Maguire

I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives. — Gregory Maguire

I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example. — Tobey Maguire

Don't fasten on Dorothy. Only unanswerable longing lies down that road. Gone is gone. — Gregory Maguire

You can't be said to have properly established yourself in a place until you have been seen there. — Gregory Maguire

As Solomon said in the Old Book, if two women squabble over which of them is the mother of a certain infant, the way to solve the problem is to cut the baby in half and share the baby in parts. — Gregory Maguire

After all is said and done," said the Dormouse, "there is nothing to be done. Or said. — Gregory Maguire

I'm close to being a vegan, but I'm not one, technically. I don't eat eggs, or nearly any dairy - no cheese or milk. I do eat honey, and a piece of milk chocolate here and there. It's never really been that hard for me. I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all. It had to be the perfect bite, with no fat or gristle or bone or anything like that. I don't judge people who eat meat - that's not for me to say - but the whole thing just sort of bums me out. — Tobey Maguire

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them. — Gregory Maguire

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness. — Gregory Maguire

St Helens denied early reports that the deals had been manufactured because they refused to sell Higham to rivals Wigan, stressing that the Warriors did not make an offer for the player. Micky Higham requested a move so that he could further his own career, ... We received an offer from Bradford for Micky, which we felt we had to consider. We were then faced with the reality that we could either accede to his request, and receive a very good fee for him, or retain him for the final year of his contract and then let him leave for nothing. — Sean Maguire

If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die. — Gregory Maguire

Once you outgrow that fetching habit of faith you will display a ferocious authority. — Gregory Maguire

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature. — Gregory Maguire

My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee. — Gregory Maguire

What the hell are you doing up there?'
So he slipped, of course, because he was startled, and because fate, having been so kind to him as to award him this ecstasy, retributively was going to kill him now. He lost his footing and grabbed for the chimney but missed. Head over thighs he rolled out like a child's toy, smashed into the poking branches of the damn pear tree, which probably saved his life, breaking his fall. He landed with a thud on a bed of lettuces, and the wind was knocked out of him, mortifyingly so, through all available orifices.
Oh, brilliant,' said the voice. 'The trees are dropping their fruits early this year. — Gregory Maguire

A story in a book has its own intentions, even if unknowable to the virgin reader, who just lollops along at her own pace regardless of the author's strategies, and gets where she will. After all, a book can be set aside for weeks, or for good. (Burned in the grate.) Alternatively, a story can be adored for centuries. But it cannot be derailed. A plot, whether abandoned by a reader or pursued rapturously, remains itself, and gets where it is headed even if nobody is looking. It is progressive and inevitable as the seasons. Winter still comes after autumn though you may have died over the summer. — Gregory Maguire

Sorry to take your award, Faith ... Everybody knows that it's really not about the numbers and the chart positions and the sales and all that stuff, it's about relationships and my two best friends are at home ... I know you're as excited as I am ... — Martie Maguire

Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents. — Gregory Maguire

We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isn't as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness — Gregory Maguire

No," she cried, "no, no, I'm not a harem, I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, no. — Gregory Maguire

The Emperor Constantine convened the Council of Nicaea at his summer palace and invited the bishops to attend, all expenses paid. As an added lure, he even mentioned "the excellent temperature of the air." Constantine had his own agenda. He wanted to get this unsettled problem of Jesus' identity straightened out so that Christianity could better serve as cement for his sprawling empire. He — Daniel C. Maguire

What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life, and the older you get - the more specificity you harvest - the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm. — Gregory Maguire

But let me remember what I choose. — Gregory Maguire

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement. — Gregory Maguire