I have so few choices, really, if I can’t get myself back home. Maybe that’s what growing up means, in the end—you go out far enough in the direction of—somewhere—and you realize that you’ve neutered...
I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
I am married,' she said, 'just not to a man.
I am alive. But I'm not that girl. I'm a woman grown from a life broken in the middle.
How children love the broken thing! And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done. Adult
Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
Her head had turned away quickly as she stepped down, not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.
Hens were wandering about like ladies at a lyceum tea trying to find their friends before selecting their seats.
He was hungry without yet knowing that hunger could be slaked by food; he was lonely without yet knowing that loneliness could be slaked, too.
He shook his ladle overhead as if summoning the wrath of angel chefs among the stars.
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 want?'...She couldn't say not to Liir. She started to...
He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.
Gossip is instructive, said the Wizard. It tells which way the wind is blowing.
Forgive us our trespasses, says Margarethe, and get out of our way.
Finally the gorilla queen had had enough. She wrote a letter to the editor of and asked for advice. The editor printed her letter (but in order to protect her privacy, changed her name from 'Gorilla...
Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know it in your conscience.
Even a clock has teeth and time has a bite all of its own.
Eu nunca uso as palavras humanista ou humanitário, pois me parece que ser humano significa ser capaz dos crimes mais hediondos da natureza.
Elphaba’s already come back. I saw her last week on the stairs.
Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.