Gregory Maguire Eye Quotations

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.

Was it an accident that I saw Fiyero, I wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes, or is it just that world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?

But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.

...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.