You mean you indulged in adultery and you dont' even have the benefit of a good saucy memory about it.
Gregory MaguireThe cunning old cow, thought Melena. She is trying that rarest of strategies, telling the truth, and making it sound plausible.
Gregory MaguireWe only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.
Gregory MaguireI 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 MaguireIt's heaven to know that it's still possible to run, though she doesn't know what she's running from.
Gregory MaguireTo consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or defer it.
Gregory MaguireSmall steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
Gregory MaguireOnly he with the hobbled foot knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can appreciate what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us. That we in our sinful souls can ever imagine charity- 'She can't go on for a moment. 'We may not always be able to practice charity, but that in this world we can even imagine it at all! That act of daring requires the greatest challenge,
Gregory MaguireBut I must pay attention now, she thinks, because what other choice is there? Maybe when I die my soul will fly to meet God, but when that time comes I won't have the use of clever hands, nor the burden of an ugly face; hands and face will be planted like bulbs in the soil, while only the bloom of the spirit emerges elsewhere. So let my hands and my face make their way in the world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
Gregory MaguireAren't these the finest treasures? Each one springs up, and becomes more red than rubies, more fine than diamonds adn more valuable, so we are told; and before you can run back here again to look, the petals have begin to drop and the leaves to yellow. Look, they sag, they fall. Are they the more wonderful because they live such a short time.
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