We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
The tedious never die; that's what makes them tedious.
History is a long time in the making.
I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.
Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it?
That’s the beginning of heroism, the decision to try.
Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.
Glinda waved dismissively. Then she tucked her hand against her mouth and bit her knuckles. It was hard to tell if her pretty ways were studied or innate. Oh, oh, she managed, I don't know that I'll...
And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.
And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no after, in the ever after of a Witch, there is no happily; In the story of a Witch, there is no afterword.
Love is wicked distraction.
I was quite a looker in my time, she said. Was she reading his mind, or only being smart, to know she must be hideous?Oh, had they invented time as long ago as that?
Bent ostentatiously to her work.
The toys can help in the battle.Mother Ginger? I doubt it!Never underestimate the value of a mother in wartime. She has the most to fight for.
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.
The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.
It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world he...
It never is the who, is it? It's always the why. -Elphaba
You can't criticize the size of a world.
Those born dull remain dull