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Book: Egg and Spoon
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Gregory Maguire _ Egg and Spoon
belongs. I can't afford so much as a footman to scour Saint Petersburg." "You must afford it. It is said, 'One
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Gregory Maguire _ Egg and Spoon
With all those stars in the sky, why isn't there enough light for us to see by? We stumble like blinded sheep." "As you can see, it is clouding over. The stars can't pierce that gloom; they just wait it out. That isn't the stars' fault. It is their custom to stay heavenly." "They should come down closer to the earth." "Well, ask them politely.
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Gregory Maguire _ Egg and Spoon
What are we going to do? Such a bad harvest last summer and too little snow now to irrigate the fields come spring …" "The world is protesting. It feels like a summer cloudburst coming, yet the hymns of the high holidays still ring in our ears. Can the calendar turn inside out? Can a year run backward?
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Gregory Maguire _ Egg and Spoon
So Elena goes out. Can you see her? Over there, on the path by the fence made of wire and disoriented wooden rails. Now in the shadows of the juniper, now coming into the light. There.
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Gregory Maguire _ Egg and Spoon
In my raveling thoughts I flew away, as if my spirit were nestled in the breast feathers of some passing hornbill or waxwing.
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Gregory Maguire _ Egg and Spoon
As Solomon said in the Old Book, if two women squabble over which of them is the mother of a certain infant, the way to solve the problem is to cut the baby in half and share the baby in parts.
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Gregory Maguire _ Egg and Spoon
Ravens aren't usually nocturnal, but hunger can be.
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Gregory Maguire _ Egg and Spoon
One should see the world, and see himself, as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed, the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world are saved. When he does one evil deed, the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world are destroyed.'" "Interesting. Who said that, your grandmother?" "Maimonides. The great Jewish scholastic." "I didn't know you read Jewish philosophers." "It is said, 'You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.'" "And who said that?" "Also Maimonides.
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Gregory Maguire _ Egg and Spoon
Her voice is hoarse. She's caught a catarrh from that dreadful draft.
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Gregory Maguire _ Egg and Spoon
Listen, we're all trapped in our own lives. You, me, everyone we've ever met.
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Gregory Maguire _ Egg and Spoon
As Solomon said in the Old Book, if two women squabble over which of them is the mother of a certain infant, the way to solve the problem is to cut the baby in half and share the baby in parts." "That's revolting." "Is it? I always wondered if that baby was a colicky brat and both women were really trying to pawn it off on the other one.
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Gregory Maguire _ Egg and Spoon
No doubt Noah offered his wife that olive branch. Forty days in a boat with those animals to clean up after? A peace offering likely all that stood between their marriage and bloody murder.
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