Gregory Maguire Light Quotations

When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.

The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.

The story of Mirror Mirror is in many ways a story about evolution. Its about the evolution of a child into an adult. Its about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. Its about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.

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