Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men Quotes
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.
Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.
Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...
When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.