Gregory Maguire Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. [...] We don't get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our licence to return to simpler times. Sooner or later, there's no place remotely like home.

  Gregory Maguire

  Growing Up, Home, Adventure

• The storm dropped a house on her head.

  Gregory Maguire

  House, Storm

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.359, Hachette UK

• No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wise, War, Home

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.24, Harper Collins

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