Sophie > Sophie's Quotes

“It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“You cannot pass!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“You're fun to look at," decided Galinda.

Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said.

I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree? ”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing.
If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Horrors.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“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.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“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?”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“You mean you indulged in adultery and you dont' even have the benefit of a good saucy memory about it.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“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.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“I never use the words "humanist" or "humanitarian", as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us.” He sighed. “It’s people who claim that they’re good, or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“The alien girl—she called herself Dorothy—was by virtue of her survival elevated to living sainthood. The dog was merely annoying.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Her head had turned quickly away...Not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!”
― Edgar Alan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“We're all mad here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Why is a raven like a writing desk?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland