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Gregory Maguire

"You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give up. She leaned her head back on the velvet cushions of the swing and said, 'Boq, you know despite myself I think you're a little sweet. You're a little sweet and you're a little charming and you're a little maddening and you're a little habit-forming.' Boq held his breath. But you're little!' she concluded. 'You're a Munchkin, for god's sake!' He kissed her, he kissed her, he kissed her, little by little by little."

Source : Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.115, Harper Collins

Gregory Maguire

#Sweet Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for me, and I thought this would be the time I would eat with a knife and fork. Alas, I ate it with chopsticks!”
“I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.”
“A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley,”
“We hear much nowadays as to the speculative ideas of men concerning the condition beyond the grave; but the admission that there is an individual existence beyond the grave, is a declaration that there must have been an individual, intelligent creation before we came here in the flesh. Life beyond the grave postulates a pre-existent state.”
“I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.”
“A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.”
“Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.”

Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (2007). “Figures of Speech Or Figures of Thought?: The Traditional View of Art”, p.17, World Wisdom, Inc
“Be ready for reconciliation after quarrels.”

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