Mirror Mirror Quotes.

1. "The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say."
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

2. "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

3. "Even God used silence as a strategy."
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

4. "Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across which the sung Masses paint hope in deep impatsi of echo. We make of the hollow world a fuller, messier, prettier place, but all our inventions can't create the one thing we require: to deserve any fond attention we might accidentally receive, to receive any fond attention we don't in the course of things deserve. We are never enough to ourselves because we can never be enough to another. Any one of us walks into any room and reminds its occupant that we are not the one they most want to see. We are never the one. We are never enough."
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

5. "She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go."
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

6. "I believe in the floor. I put it in place and I walk on it. Faith is a floor. If you don't work at making it for yourself, you have nothing to walk on."
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

7. "Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it."
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

8. "He had forgotten how convincing the world could look, how sure of itself: its outlines and edges; it's gradations, recessions, protrusions; it's startling and vulgar colors."
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

9. "What more does one ask of life, really, but to stagger from moment to moment with a reason to wake and wait for the next reason to wake?"
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

10. "But there was the mirror in which I would glimpse his handsome form, because mirrors don't lie about men, only women."
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror