That's all I want- to do no harm.
Gregory MaguireWhy should I keep myself so safe?” he asked her, but he was almost asking himself. What is there in my life worth preserving? With a good wife back there in the mountains, serviceable as an old spoon, dry in the heart from having been scared of marriage since she was six? With three children so shy of their father, the Prince of the Arjikis, that they will hardly come near him? With a careworn clan moving here, moving there, going through th same disputes, herding the same herds, as thy have done for five hundred years? And me, with a shallow and undirected mind, no artfulness in word or habit, no especial kindness toward the world? What is there that makes my life worth preserving?
“I love you,” said Elphaba.
“So that’s that then, and that’s it,” he answered her and himself. “And I love you. So I promise to be careful.
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Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.
Gregory MaguireAnd in the cave there lived a wicked old witch. Did she ever some out? Not yet.
Gregory MaguireThere may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
Gregory MaguireNo one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
Gregory MaguireIf one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
Gregory MaguireHe hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they 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 MaguireTags: psychology
The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.
Gregory MaguireTags: discovery
It's hard to find evil in this world,' said the Witch. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.
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