I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
Gregory MaguireThose times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.
Gregory MaguireTags: time getting-older
The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
Gregory MaguireThe boy does well enough," said Vicente. "A goose does not ask much of life, after all."
"No," she admitted. "Those who ask much are more likely disappointed. We should all be as simple as the goose.
The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.
Gregory Maguire(from the short story The Honorary Shepherds)...you can't be kicked out of a faith. Faith starts inside your heart and ends up in eternity. All you can be kicked out of is a building, which is the bus stop of faith, sort of, and what's a building?
Gregory MaguireTags: faith
To grow a song, you must plant a note.
Gregory MaguireTags: son-of-a-witch
I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
Gregory Maguire...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
Gregory MaguireThe future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
Gregory MaguireTags: mind memory memories mind-games
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