I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
Gregory MaguireShe dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
Gregory MaguireTo consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows
Gregory MaguireWe start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isnโt as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness
Gregory Maguire