Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties.
Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind.
Stichwörter: words past history childhood memory memories thoughts
What words she had thought to write on the face of the moon were washed away from her as she submerged, trying to disturb no one, nothing. Trying not so much as to interrupt a current, even trying not to shatter into soft-edged platelets the green moon in the reflection. Trying to sidestep having any influence at all, now and till the end of her life.
Gregory MaguireWhat goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
Gregory MaguireThe momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
Gregory MaguireStichwörter: thinking mind think thinkers mind-thoughts mood moody
Men were beasts. Everyone knew that.
Gregory MaguireWe live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls. . .
Gregory MaguireI'm not involved in shame. Morals are learned in childhood, and I didn't have any such holiday called childhood.
Gregory MaguireHe 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 MaguireStichwörter: prejudice
She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she...
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Glinda used her glitter beads, and you used your exotic looks and background, but weren't you just doing the same thing, trying to maximize what you had in order to get what you wanted? People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It's people who claim that they're good, or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.
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