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• They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.

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  Love, Expression, Lust

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• What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.

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  Remains, Hard

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked Years”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

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  Wise, War, Home

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.

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  Thinking, Stories, Care

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• I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

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  Classical Music, Century, Late

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Hands, Boards

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Guy, Way

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• Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming.

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  Visite

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• No one is exempt from grief.

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  Grief, Sadness, Bereavement

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

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  Children, Adults, Restraint

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.

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  Needs, Wonderland, Wonder

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• ...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.

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  Lying, Healthy, Vengeance

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• The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.

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  Moon, Light, Rose

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• If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

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  Monk, Ancestor, Knows

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• To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

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  Mirrors, Blood, Looks

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• From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

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  Men, Wings, Grew

  "Very Short Stories". www.wired.com. November 1, 2006.

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• I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

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  Writing, Caring, Numbers

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• Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle

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  Memories, Heart, Body

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• Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.

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  Prayer, Forever, Use

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.

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  Important, Doe, Individual

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• My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.

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  Jobs, Mind, Protect You

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• Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.

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  Running, Feet, Sound

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• And it's a cold place the world, especially when warmed by arsen.

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  World, Cold

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• For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

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  Art, Fun, Evil

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• Las pequeñas criaturas fritas como buñuelos salen crujientes y divinas.

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  Littles, Divine, Critters

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