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101 " Was it an accident that I saw Fiyero, I wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes, or is it just that world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew? "
― Gregory Maguire , Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
102 " She would emerge. She always had before. The punishing political climate of Oz had beat her down, dried her up, tossed her away—like a seedling she had drifted, apparently too desiccated ever to take root. But surely the curse was on the land of Oz, not on her. Though Oz had given her a twisted life, hadn’t it also made her capable? "
103 " No," she cried, "no, no, I'm not a harem, I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, no. "
104 " His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully. "
105 " ...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it. "
106 " No one is exempt from grief. "
107 " Glinda used her glitter beads, and you used your exotic looks and background, but weren't you just doing the same thing, trying to maximize what you had in order to get what you wanted? 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 anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of. "
108 " When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil, and maybe splits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity. "
109 " It’s the age of daring. It’s the only time we have. We must live in the present. We are young and alive. "
110 " They had ganged up on her, in the claustrophobic, loving way of families, and she wanted no more of it. "
111 " I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness. "
112 " I've told you before, I don't comprehend religion, although conviction is a concept I'm beginning to get. In any case, someone with a real religious conviction is, I propose, a religious convict, and deserves locking up. "
113 " The cunning old cow, thought Melena. She is trying that rarest of strategies, telling the truth, and making it sound plausible. "
114 " Everybody needs to grow up and leave home sometimes. But sometimes home doesn't like it. "
115 " 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? "
116 " I do not deny that you overwhelm me with your beauty. You are the moon in the season of shadow light; you are the fruit of the candlewood tree; you are the phoenix in circles of flight --. "
117 " He kissed her, he kissed her, he kissed her, little by little by little. "
118 " Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint. "
119 " She wondered, faintly, if it was immoral to raise children in the habit of hope. Was it not, in the end, all the harder for them to adjust to the reality of how the world worked? "
120 " Liir held Chistery in his lap and sobbed into his scalp. Chistery said, "Well, we'll wail while woe'll wheel," and he cried along with Liir. "