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The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

Gregory Maguire
Errors, Soul, Body

I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.

Gregory Maguire
Shoes, Waiting, Soul
Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.351, Hachette UK

...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

Gregory Maguire
Children, Soul, Liberty
Gregory Maguire (2009). “Lost: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.

Gregory Maguire
Soul, Redemption, Answers
Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.32, Harper Collins

When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.

Gregory Maguire
Light, Childhood, Soul

Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

Gregory Maguire
Drama, Soul, Suffering
Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.29, Harper Collins

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.

Gregory Maguire
Soul, Plot, Lapses

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