Happiness now sometimes meant turning away from what one remembered of earlier, better happiness.
Glinda was changed. She knew it herself. She had come to Shiz a vain, silly thing, and she now found herself in a coven of vipers. Maybe it was her own fault.
Glinda used her glitter beads, and you used your exotic looks and background, but weren't you just doing the same thing, trying to maximize what you had in order to get what you wanted? People who cla...
Don’t wish, said Rain, don’t start. Wishing only…
Do you expect to learn anything at Shiz? he asked. I have already learned not to speak to strangers. Then I will introduce myself and we will be strangers no longer. I am Dillamond. I am disinclined t...
Chopin’s theme, a simple descending descant the first time round, articulated itself in the repeat with nuanced embellishment. It was music remembering itself. It meant something different, something...
Children surrender nothing when faced with the world: it is the world that gives up, over and over again. By so giving up, of course, it renews itself—that is the secret. Dying in order to live, that...
But what is character? How solid? We cut our hair, we shave our beards, we lose a limb. We remain ourselves. In dreams, however, we swap identities licentiously. We sabotage the structures of our char...
But men don’t dry up, Melena objected; they can father to the death. Ah, we’re slow learners, Nanny countered. But they can’t learn at all.
But is life worth living in the wrong form? said Elphie.The interior doesn’t change, she answered, except by self-involvement. Of which be not afraid, and also beware.
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Being vulnerable to desolation also arises from being unable to picture a set of choices with which to change your lot in life
Being born with a talent or an inclination for goodness is the aberration.
Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind.
And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.
Against the mutability of dream, the natural laws advocated by our bewigged Enlightenment forebears are powerless. Newton, for instance, insists on gravity and other prohibitions of the physical world...
A notion of character, not so much discredited as simply forgotten, once held that people only came into themselves partway through their lives.
A certain young scholar of Shiz Right before a philosophy quiz Guzzled splits of champagne So that he could declaim I drink, and therefore I is.
From the short story The Honorary Shepherds)...you can't be kicked out of a faith. Faith starts inside your heart and ends up in eternity. All you can be kicked out of is a building, which is the bus...
Once you outgrow that fetching habit of faith you will display a ferocious authority.