Quotes by Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

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I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve. — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
Of course. You get everything from books. — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
O beautiful, to make escapeAnd leave this world behind.Had I to stay another dayI'd lose my fucking mind! — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement. — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward. — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
Don’t let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even i — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
Don’t let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off. — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's. — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them. It seems capricious and mean-spirited of the Grimmerie to hold — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving thro — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns a — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then fo — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
Everyone has a right to love the land that gave them the things they need to live. It gives them beauty to look at, and — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only... — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
This is what fun is like," said Rain, almost to herself. — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
Well, I learned to cook. At my age," she told him. "What's next? Art therapy? Anyway, I've had quite a time of it this s — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz