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A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3) QUOTES

A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3) QUOTES

1 " Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

2 " Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

3 " Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

4 " And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

5 " Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine, he thought, and the nuances to be teased from its pages are nearly infinite in their variety and coquettish appeal. And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

6 " Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

7 " Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

8 " The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

9 " The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

10 " He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

11 " 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 , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

12 " The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again.
Everything was not merely relative, it was--how to put it? --relevant. Representational. Revealing. Referential and reverential both. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

13 " Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval! "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

14 " He was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

15 " When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

16 " 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. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

17 " The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

18 " He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

19 " We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isn’t as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

20 " Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them. "

― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)