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1 " Somewhere inside you, I hope you know who you are. I hope you know what you are. I hope you know that you're powerful. We need you. "
― Danielle Paige , The Wicked Will Rise (Dorothy Must Die, #2)
2 " You don't have to promise me the moon or the stars, just promise me you will stand under them with me. "
3 " You can’t just cover your eyes and pretend like terrible things aren’t happening simply because you can’t see them, "
4 " She had been both good and wicked and everything in between. She had been both at once, too, until it was hard for her to even tell the difference anymore. "
5 " Faith: everyone knows it’s something you’re supposed to have, but it’s harder to put that into practice when your senses are telling you all hope is lost. "
6 " Evil will always catch up with you. That’s why you have to get to it first. "
7 " Look, fear’s not always rational, okay? Anyway, there’s a difference between being afraid and being a coward. At least there was one thing I could take comfort in: if you’re afraid, you must still be a little bit human. "
8 " The Wizard was from a place called America, and to him, a female ruler was a strange and unsettling notion. "
9 " That witch talks a big game, but she couldn’t be a bigger candy-ass if she dropped her pink little undies and sat on a pile of gumdrops. "
10 " Meet the new witch, same as the old bitch. We monkeys have dinged enough dongs to know. "
11 " But really what I mean by crappy is, like—you know—not very good at it. Like, if there were a Witch Mall, Glamora would work at Witch Neiman Marcus, Mombi would work at Witch Talbot’s and I would work at the Witch Dollar Store, where people would only come to buy witch paper towels, six rolls for ninety-nine cents. "
12 " If you've never seen a rainbow burn, consider yourself lucky. "
13 " Yes I might have been quiet and shy, the kind of person who did my best to keep my head down just to get through the day. But even then, I had never let people walk all over me. Even in the days when I didn't know a left hook from a karate kick, I'd still always found my own ways of fighting for the things I believed in" -Amy "
14 " The monkey village was like the world’s coolest tree house crossed with something out of a Swiss Family Robinson theme party thrown by Martha Stewart. "
15 " I had one weakness: kindness. And kindness is a weakness. I can see that now. But it's a weakness I'm still not sure I'd want to give up entirely. "
16 " It made such perfect sense that I felt stupid for not thinking of it earlier. Duh. You couldn’t find the Island of Lost Things until you had gotten yourself lost beyond any hope of finding. If I’d given up an hour, or a day ago, it would have appeared that much quicker. So much for quitters never win. "
17 " When I’d dreamed of getting away from Kansas, what I’d really wanted was to find a place I could matter. Where I could be someone, and have a purpose. Now I had found the place where I belonged. Yeah, it might have been nice if it had been a fairyland with fewer problems—someplace a little harder to mistake for a nightmare—but on the other hand, the more I settled "
18 " If there's something to be involved in, you can be sure that witches will always be lurking nearby. "
19 " The despicable crone known as Mombi stands accused of high witchery, gross dishonesty, untold crimes against monkeys, outrageous trespassing, and general unpleasantness. Also, she is extremely unattractive. Miss Amy, do you speak for the witch? "
20 " It’s funny how quickly you adjust to insanity. "