Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life And Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West Quotes
Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.
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.
It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.
The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.
Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.
Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.
I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.
The world was floods above and fire below
The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.
Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.
It isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.
Her head had turned quickly away...Not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.
He lingered at the door, and said, 'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you wan
Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore.
We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?
At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.
I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.
What's big, thick, makes the earth move, and wants to have its way with you?" "I don't know, but can you introduce me?
But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero, " and that melted his heart.
