I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

- Gregory Maguire

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

- Gregory Maguire

There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.

- Gregory Maguire

No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

- Gregory Maguire

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

- Gregory Maguire

The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol…

- Gregory Maguire

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

- Gregory Maguire

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

- Gregory Maguire

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

- Gregory Maguire