The Brides of Maracoor Quotes

“Leave it behind. There’s always more world to the world.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“Maybe we’re only each as brave as the circumstances of our lives allow us to be. Maybe that’s all the brave we can be.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“The most evident life was cats, for cats refused to comply with instructions in the best of times, and they saw to their own safety faster than the ordinary human narcissist could blink.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“She was of an age that took other people’s lives to be pretty fictions, useful merely for adorning the invisible membrane that contained her own singular and glorious existence.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“He was rewarded with a promotion to immortality, there forever to caper with other immortal companions who sounded, frankly, a bit out of control.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“She didn’t want to say goodbye to Helia but her appetite for a dramatic occasion was immense.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“Some people are born without much yeast in their dough.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“Death comes as a shock even when it is inevitable. The world reasserts itself. It says, I keep going whether you do or not. I am indifferent to your need for constancy, says the world, and my indifference is shown in my own constancy.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“I assume we’ll be a little bit surprised—that’s what tomorrows promise. Something unexpected. That’s about all we can believe in, most days.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“The only home for an exile is exile.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“Every day you die a little and get a new chance to find out how next to live.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“There is a limit to what any farther can do.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“It seems to me the nature of the world is all one thing or all the other. Either there is nothing but coincidence or there is nothing but established fare.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“Childhood, which seems endless to children, is the most finite span of moments in the history of a life.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“And, once the innocence of childhood is lost, no adolescent has ever regained it.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“Did she want to be a bride of Maracoor? To learn to submit to the authority of routine? To bully her own feet into bleeding, to give up choice, to take up a mission in which she couldn't yet believe?
Even put that way, Rain wasn't sure. Perhaps she did. Perhaps this was what she had been seeking.
Passivity. Regularity. A dulling of other pains. Distraction.
A further shedding of her identity, even deeper than amnesia had yet achieved.
The animal unblinking stillness of a hare in a trap, as the poacher draws near. The paralysis before the inevitable.
Choosing death before death chooses you.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“Another word for poverty of choice is innocence.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“If we forgo matters of right and wrong on a human scale, we invite disaster in every door and window and via every mountain pass and harbor.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“But all life is mystery, and death is a sister ot life, and so also mystery.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“We are only missionaries for the world, after all, and when our work is done we really don't exist. Do we? Can it be said for anyone?”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“Learning to suffer is called growing up. If we postponed all our sorrows, could we be capable of doing the work we're called to do?”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“Is there - is there need in the Afterlife?”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“Regret could disguise itself in a thousand veils, you could perish before having the strength to drag the last one away.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor

“Nostalgia for something that never had been.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor