The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates …

Gregory Maguire
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The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice. ✨ Gregory Maguire (2011). Wicked, p.396, Hachette UK
... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny. ✨ Gregory Mag … ▶
It's unbecoming, she agreed. A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un. ✨ Gregory Maguire (2013). The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son … ▶
But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look tha … ▶
The real thing about evil, said the Witch at the doorway, isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's … ▶

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

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