Or is it just that the world upwraps itself to you, again and again, as soon as you're ready to see it anew?
Only he with the hobbled foot knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can appreciate what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us. That we in our sinful souls ca...
Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all.
Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of...
No, my girl, you know nothing of how we women are imprisoned in our lives, but there are ways to determine the sentence we must serve.
No one is exempt from grief.
Never underestimate the value of a mother in wartime. She has the most to fight for.
Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spiri...
It’s the age of daring. It’s the only time we have. We must live in the present. We are young and alive.
It's heaven to know that it's still possible to run, though she doesn't know what she's running from.
In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.
In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.
If the unlettered farmers of Munchkinland and the factory workers of Gillikin believe that their fate is being determined by how the Time Dragon dreams them up, they don't need to bother to take respo...
I think you know if you're different, he ventured. I think you know if you're gifted. How could you not?You know if you feel set apart, said Nanny, but who doesn't feel that? Maybe we're all gifted. W...
I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!
I just like to think about what I’m reading. Don’t you? I don’t read very well. So I don’t think I think very well either. Galinda smiled. I dress to kill, though.
I came here to propose that we meet from time to time. That we meet as friends. That, free of expectations, we come to know each other as dear friends. I do not deny that you overwhelm me with your be...
How truly novel. The emotional life of furniture. I never.
He is a boy, just as boys are. A little dull, maybe, but he hasn't had the advantages we've had.''Which are?' prompted Glinda.'Even for a short time,' said Elphaba, 'we had a mother. Giddy, alcoholic,...
He had loved the girl who had loved the glamour in herself, and that girl seemed to have disappeared. But he was happy to have Glinda as a friend. Well, in a nutshell: he had loved Galinda and this no...