Gregory Maguire

“Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?”

“The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.”

“Night-time is being brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.”

“It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?”