The Witch of Maracoor Quotes

“Where am I now? I am here, now. That's where I am. Now. If you don't understand, turn yourself around and you speak to the past and speak to the future. What you say matters. What you do matters. Love whom you will cherish them while you have the time, don't' give an inch when the bullies kick at your stilts, Kick back, and then give them a poultice if you've hurt them. The past and future are just window dressing. Where I am is here. I'm busy with a potion that seems to come with this distracting side effect and I better make some corrections before I start hearing violins in the water closet and seeing comets in the chowder. Do you have anything else, or is this just chatter? I hardly think my younger self worth the cost of conversation. Didn't have much to say then and have less to add now, after all this so-called living.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Witch of Maracoor

“I suppose she was just following her own hunger. Not knowing what will slake it, if anything. The way you did. The way I did, too. All love is anomaly, don’t you think?”
― Gregory Maguire, The Witch of Maracoor

“We can’t rescue one another. We can only stand by while others do their best for themselves.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Witch of Maracoor

“Society forgives a woman everything but lapses in taste.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Witch of Maracoor

“The first rule of witchery is to acknowledge your deficits.” “How would you know?” “That’s the first rule of everything, really.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Witch of Maracoor

“You've answered your question already. Where am I now? I am here, now. That's where I am. Now. If you don't understand, turn yourself around and you speak to the past and speak to the future. What you say matters. What you do matters. Love whom you will, cherish them while you have the time, don't give an inch when the bullies kick at your stilts. Kick back, and then give them a poultice if you've hurt them. The past and future are just window dressing. Where I am is here. I'm busy with a potion that seems to come with this distracting side effect and I better make some corrections before I start hearing violins in the water closet and seeing comets in the chowder. Do you have anything else, or is this just chatter? I hardly think my younger self worth the cost of conversation. Didn't have much to say then and have less to add now, after all this so-called living.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Witch of Maracoor

“I came across a concept called ephrarxis. If I understand it correctly, it means a nostalgia for something that might have been but never was. I take it to be a kind of sickness, frankly. Something that dissuades you from living in the present because the impossible other- history is so alluring”
― Gregory Maguire, The Witch of Maracoor

“Chane is neither good nor bad, it matters how the change is used in the wicked world.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Witch of Maracoor

“Nothing stays the same while you go abroad.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Witch of Maracoor

“When a place no longer novel, one doesn't see it the same way”
― Gregory Maguire, The Witch of Maracoor

“Live with ambiguity or die from intolerance of it”
― Gregory Maguire, The Witch of Maracoor

“No answer arrives until the question is posed. Otherwise, it is no answer.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Witch of Maracoor

“Suffering a whole life is one way to know you're having a life”
― Gregory Maguire, The Witch of Maracoor

“Could a book want anything? Only to be read. Maybe. What book prefers to go uninspected.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Witch of Maracoor