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The Brides of Maracoor QUOTES

The Brides of Maracoor QUOTES

1 " I assume we’ll be a little bit surprised—that’s what tomorrows promise. Something unexpected. That’s about all we can believe in, most days. "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

2 " Some people are born without much yeast in their dough. "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

3 " It seems to me the nature of the world is all one thing or all the other. Either there is nothing but coincidence or there is nothing but established fare. "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

4 " Childhood, which seems endless to children, is the most finite span of moments in the history of a life. "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

5 " Death comes as a shock even when it is inevitable. The world reasserts itself. It says, I keep going whether you do or not. I am indifferent to your need for constancy, says the world, and my indifference is shown in my own constancy. "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

6 " There is a limit to what any farther can do. "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

7 " Every day you die a little and get a new chance to find out how next to live. "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

8 " The only home for an exile is exile. "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

9 " We are only missionaries for the world, after all, and when our work is done we really don't exist. Do we? Can it be said for anyone? "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

10 " But all life is mystery, and death is a sister ot life, and so also mystery. "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

11 " If we forgo matters of right and wrong on a human scale, we invite disaster in every door and window and via every mountain pass and harbor. "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

12 " Nostalgia for something that never had been. "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

13 " Regret could disguise itself in a thousand veils, you could perish before having the strength to drag the last one away. "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

14 " Did she want to be a bride of Maracoor? To learn to submit to the authority of routine? To bully her own feet into bleeding, to give up choice, to take up a mission in which she couldn't yet believe?
Even put that way, Rain wasn't sure. Perhaps she did. Perhaps this was what she had been seeking.
Passivity. Regularity. A dulling of other pains. Distraction.
A further shedding of her identity, even deeper than amnesia had yet achieved.
The animal unblinking stillness of a hare in a trap, as the poacher draws near. The paralysis before the inevitable.
Choosing death before death chooses you. "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

15 " And, once the innocence of childhood is lost, no adolescent has ever regained it. "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

16 " Is there - is there need in the Afterlife? "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

17 " Another word for poverty of choice is innocence. "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor

18 " Learning to suffer is called growing up. If we postponed all our sorrows, could we be capable of doing the work we're called to do? "

― Gregory Maguire , The Brides of Maracoor