Gregory Maguire Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.

  Gregory Maguire

  Shoes, Waiting, Soul

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.351, Hachette UK

• The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

  Gregory Maguire

  Errors, Soul, Body

• ...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Soul, Liberty

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Lost: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

• 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.

  Gregory Maguire

  Soul, Plot, Lapses

• 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.

  Gregory Maguire

  Soul, Redemption, Answers

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.32, Harper Collins

• 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?

  Gregory Maguire

  Drama, Soul, Suffering

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.29, Harper Collins

• When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.

  Gregory Maguire

  Light, Childhood, Soul

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