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.
Even God used silence as a strategy.
Gregory MaguireHe lingered at the door, and said, 'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you want?'...
She couldn't say forgiveness, not to Liir. She started to say 'a soldier,' to make fun of his mooning affections over the guys in uniform. But realizing even as she said it that he would be hurt, she caught herself halfway, and in the end what came out of her mouth surprised them both.
She said, 'A soul-'
He blinked at her.
Mots clés thought-provoking
YOU HAVE YOUR OWN LIFE TO LIVE, IRIS, AND AT ITS END, THE ONLY OPINION THAT AMOUNTS TO ANYTHING IS THAT WHICH GOD BESTOWS.
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Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish to hell he'd go away.
Gregory MaguireGalinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.
Gregory MaguireMots clés conversation
The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.
Gregory MaguireImmortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.
Gregory MaguireMots clés eternity immortality
When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.
Gregory MaguireMots clés childhood
If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
Gregory MaguireMots clés magic
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