Quotes by Gregory Maguire

It’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

People always did like to talk, didnt they? Thats why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

The story of Mirror Mirror is in many ways a story about evolution. Its about the evolution of a child into an adult. Its about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. Its about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

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.

“Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now were the thick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And were in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.”

“Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.”

“Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.”

“But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him Yero, my hero, and that melted his heart.”