Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
Gregory MaguireI shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
Gregory MaguireThat was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.
Gregory MaguireThe real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.
Gregory Maguire