Mirror Mirror Quotes.

11. "Happiness now sometimes meant turning away from what one remembered of earlier, better happiness."
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

12. "Please, I know nothing of the world, except my father is lost in it."
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

13. "No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not."
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

14. "Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being."
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

15. "I’m a priest, I know better than most when a lie is permitted."
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

16. "The years peeled slowly off, one by one, or perhaps dozens at a time."
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror

17. "The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective. Even a bowed mirror works primarily by engaging the eyes, and she who centers herself in its surface is unlikely to notice anyone in the background who lacks a certain status, distinction."
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror