Gregory Maguire Way Quotations

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.

I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.

She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.

There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors

... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.

If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.