How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
Gregory MaguireThe unvisited grannies, in stone houses by the wheat field, can't remember their husbands or children. They worry their hands, though, hands that could do with a rinsing. The grannies think:
We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isn't as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness.
Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?
Gregory MaguireWhat's big, thick, makes the earth move, and wants to have its way with you?" "I don't know, but can you introduce me?
Gregory MaguireTag: funny
The surface of the shoes seemed to pulse with hundreds of reflections and refractions. In the firelight, it was like looking at boiling corpuscles of blood under a magnifying glass.
Gregory MaguireRemember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.
Gregory MaguireTag: life breath secret remember
Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind.
Gregory MaguireWisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
Gregory MaguireShe watched the sun bleed water out of the icicle. Warm and cold working together to make an icicle. Warm and cold anger working together to make a fury, a fury worthy enough to use as a weapon against the old things that still needed fighting.
Gregory MaguireThe moon passed overhead in its path from the Vinkus, and she felt its accusatory spotlight, and moved back from the tall windows.
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