After Alice
Gregory Maguire
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The world pauses for royalty and deformity alike, and sometimes one can’t tell the difference.”
“A story in a book has its own intentions, even if unknowable to the virgin reader, who just lollops along at her own pace regardless of the author’s strategies, and gets where she will. After all, a book can be set aside for weeks, or for good. (Burned in the grate.) Alternatively, a story can be adored for centuries. But it cannot be derailed. A plot, whether abandoned by a reader or pursued rapturously, remains itself, and gets where it is headed even if nobody is looking. It is progressive and inevitable as the seasons. Winter still comes after autumn though you may have died over the summer.”
“Sooner or later we grow into deserving our own deaths, somehow.”
“She found her regard for Mr. Winter turning to something like suspicion—though notice how often we lower suspicion upon others to avoid putting ourselves under scrutiny. Now”
“In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.”
“Winter still comes after autumn though you may have died over the summer.”
“Marmalade has to make its own way in life, like the rest of us, she thought.”
“As for dreams, they are powered by urgent desire, even if that desire is only to escape the quotidian.”
“You know our Alice. She plays hide-and-seek but sometimes forgets to ask someone to look for her.”
“There is a limit to the nonsense even a dream can attempt.”
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Book Keywords:
sense-of-self, being
