I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.
Gregory MaguireThe melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.
Gregory MaguireBut his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.
Gregory MaguireJust follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.
Gregory MaguireImmortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.
Gregory MaguireAnd of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice.
Gregory Maguire