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  1. Gregory Maguire _ Egg & Spoon

    If you're ever dragged from your chambers at midnight, blindfolded and gagged, without being told whether you're off to a firing squad or a surprise birthday party, you'll find that you turn and return to that pivotal moment.
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  2. Gregory Maguire _ Egg & Spoon

    That's the beginning of heroism, the decision to try.
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  3. Gregory Maguire _ Egg & Spoon

    Being normal isn't that miserable.""Try it for a thousand years in a row, and you'll be grateful for a little zaniness.
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  4. Gregory Maguire _ Egg & Spoon

    I need some advice I can use.""Advice? Don't use your energies fretting. The morning is wiser than the night, my ducky. The train will be back in the station by dawn. If it's not, you're welcome to starve with the rest of us. But don't worry. If it gets too much for you, just outside this cottage is a convenient well. A more efficient method to drown yourself is hard to find. Splish splash.
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  5. Gregory Maguire _ Egg & Spoon

    Day after day in the season of disaster, it can be hard to recognize a chance in fortune when it comes.
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  6. Gregory Maguire _ Egg & Spoon

    The witch turned this way and that, "I think I've kept my figure, don't you?" she asked Mewster."Who else would want it?""Don't be snarky." She batted her eyelashes at her reflection. "I do believe I have my mother's eyes.""Maybe it's time you give them back. Your mother's bee dead since the reign of Oleg the Incontinent.
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  7. Gregory Maguire _ Egg & Spoon

    She hobbled away into the dark, saying her prayers aloud."Old saint Nicholas, young saint MarkKeep me safe in the pesky darkSaint Olga of the hight Himalayas Send me a set of cashmere pajamas.
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  8. Gregory Maguire _ Egg & Spoon

    Being vulnerable to desolation also arises from being unable to picture a set of choices with which to change your lot in life
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  9. Gregory Maguire _ Egg & Spoon

    Let's see what we have in the larder. We have eye of newt and toe of frog, carbon-crisp residue of manticore loin, a beaker of all-natural belladonna extract, some wolfbane, some romaine, a poteen of ptomaine, and a few limp radishes in butter, pinched from the platter left out for Marat after his bath, which he never got to since he died therein. Let's have cheerios.""I don't know what cheerios are," said Cat."They haven't been invented yet. You'll love them.
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  10. Gregory Maguire _ Egg & Spoon

    Yes, freedom is magnificent. But freedom is hard work.
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  11. Gregory Maguire _ Egg & Spoon

    It seems there is no shortage of regret among the young -- but then, they are young, they make mistakes. They have time to correct them and the courage to admit their failings aloud.
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  12. Gregory Maguire _ Egg & Spoon

    She added, perhaps to herself, "You have to become old and ugly before anyone listens to you, and then they don't, because you're ugly and old.
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