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61 " How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. "
― Gregory Maguire , Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
62 " The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments. "
63 " This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction. "
64 " Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience. "
65 " The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar. "
66 " The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief. "
67 " When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims. "
68 " Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly. "
69 " Tell me to mind my own business, tell me to go fuck myself, to piss, off, go on, say it, but don’t tell me nothing’s wrong. "
70 " However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again. "
71 " Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life. "
72 " The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on. "
73 " Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color. "
74 " Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars. "
75 " I am a forgettable leaf on a tree. "
76 " That's all I want- to do no harm. "
77 " There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit. "
78 " Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art. "
79 " Love makes hunters of us all. "
80 " It was deliciously pagan. "