Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Gregory Maguire
Top 10 Best Quotes
“In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.”
“If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.”
“It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.”
“Approval is overrated. Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it.”
“I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.”
“The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.”
“...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes or lives less miserable so that we might be more kind-well, then, lets have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories.”
“Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.”
“And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.”
“How shallow the words are, really - She is a witch. One might as well say, She is a mother, thinks Iris; that about covers the same terrain, doesn't it?”
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Book Keywords:
magic, eternity, immortality
