Frases de Gregory Maguire

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“Finais felizes ainda são finais.”

“Chovia bastante naquela manhã. A luz tinha um tom acinzentado e musguento devido às nuvens baixas. Teve de admitir que a menina não era um cadáver. Estava viva. Talvez tivesse nascido gelada, mas agora estava viva. Ainda suja com o sangue do nascimento e o início aguado das suas fezes, Liir levou-a até à porta e ergue-a para a chuva. Lavada, revelou-se verde.”

“Deslizando as mãos ao longo das costelas dela até a planura do seu abdómen. Ela trazia-lhe sempre as mãos de volta aos seios delgados e expressivos; não permitia ser tocada por mãos abaixo da cintura. Moveram-se em simultâneo, diamantes azuis num campo verde.”

“As pessoas dizem «meu Deus!» a toda a hora, mas habitualmente querem dizer «ora bolas».”

“E tu? - Perguntou o Espantalho ao Lenhador de Lata,
- O que farei se ganhar um coração? - Zombou este. - Despedaçá-lo-ei constantemente, suponho.”

“Nossa vida inteira é constituída de atividades sem significado. Nós cavamos pela vida e sofremos ao longo dela feito ratos, e somos jogados em nossos túmulos no fim. Por que, de vez em quando não podemos ouvir a voz de uma profecia eu assistir à peça de um milagre? Por trás da aparente farsa e ultraje das nossas vidas de ratos, ainda há um padrão e um significado humildes! Chegue mais perto, minha boa gente, e veja os agouros que um pouco de conhecimento a mais traz para sua vida!”

“Lembre-se disso: nada está escrito nas estrelas. Nem essas estrelas, nem quaisquer outras. Ninguém controla seu destino.”

“They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.”

“Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.”

“There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors”

“I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.”

“The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.”

“If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.”

“Always the bridesmaid, never the bride."
Always the godfather, never the god".”

“Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.”

“It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.”

“But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.”

“A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.”

“The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.”

“Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense”

“Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.”

“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.”

“If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.”

“She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!"

What?"

She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!"

Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.”

“You're fun to look at," decided Galinda.

Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said.

I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-”

“The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.”

“Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.”

“Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.”

“Even God used silence as a strategy.”

“Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?”

“She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she…”

“I learned failure early and mastered it.”

“Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing.
If one could drown in the grass… it might be the best way to die.”

“We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.”

“The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.”