Glinda Quotes

“It's just life, so keep dancing through.”
― Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical

“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 see you again- and you remind me so of her.”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

“My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless.”
― Gregory Maguire

“They did the best they could. Besides I was hardly a stranger. I had known your grandmother. We were like this." She twined her second and third fingers together as if they might strangle each other.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“I like the bad one better,' I said. 'She had flying monkeys, and the good one was tacky and seemed kind of dumb.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Toil & Trouble

“You need my help? What for? Bread, cash, a fake identity to help you slip sideways through the cracks? Tell me what you need, tell me why I should help, and I'll see what I can do. In memory of Elphaba. You knew her." Her head titled again, but up, this time, and it was to keep the sudden wetness from spilling into her carefully colored false eyelashes. "You knew my Elphie!”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

“Well, I learned to cook. At my age," she told him. "What's next? Art therapy? Anyway, I've had quite a time of it this summer, and who knows what eases down on any road. Come, Rain. A quick goodbye, and off you go."
"Goodbye," said Rain to the Lion, and then to the woman.
"Not to them," said Glinda, "To me."
She turned eyes that were saucerly upon Glinda. "Mum?”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“I'm just doing your tea, Mum," he said.
"Are you all imbecilic? Is that a requirement of enlisted men? It's Lady GLINDA!" She was losing it, big time. "Get me Murth!”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“They came to see Glinda the Good Witch, but after midnight, they found the Wicked Witch of the West and left quaking in fear of flying monkeys.”
― Patricia Briggs, Shifting Shadows

“She is the most powerful of all the Witches, and rules over the Quadlings. Besides, her castle stands on the edge of the desert, so she may know a way to cross it.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“The Quadlings think she is good,” said the solider, “and she is kind to everyone. I have heard that Glinda is a beautiful woman, who knows how to keep young in spite of the many years she has lived.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

“When they were all quite presentable they followed the soldier girl into a big room where the Witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

“Everything was very gorgeous in Glinda’s gardens, and while our voyagers gazed about with admiring eyes a company of soldiers silently appeared and surrounded them. But these soldiers of the great Sorceress were entirely different from those of Jinjur’s Army of Revolt, although they were likewise girls. For Glinda’s soldiers wore neat uniforms and bore swords and spears; and they marched with skill and precision that proved them well trained in the arts of war.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz

“By the dim light of the new moon, however, Glinda’s forces silently surrounded the city and pitched their tents of scarlet silk upon the greensward.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz