Gregory Maguire Mind Quotations

Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.

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

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.

My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.

I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

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