Maggs Black

“If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.”
― Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Even God used silence as a strategy.”
― Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement