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“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way 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

“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

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she...”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Happy endings are still endings.”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

“We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

“This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.”
― Gregory Maguire

“He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.”
― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

“How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.”
― Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

“I learned failure early and mastered it.”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

“Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Tell me to mind my own business, tell me to go fuck myself, to piss, off, go on, say it, but don’t tell me nothing’s wrong.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“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.”
― Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

“One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

“There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trism lived in Liir's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary memory of the best of Trism's glinting virtues sometimes kicked up unquietable spasms of longing.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.'
Did she ever come out?'
Not yet.”
― Gregory Maguire

“So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“That's all I want- to do no harm.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish to hell he'd go away.”
― Gregory Maguire

“You confuse not speaking with not listening.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.”
― Gregory Maguire