

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

“They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.”
― Out of Oz
― Out of Oz

“She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.”
― Out of Oz
― Out of Oz

“It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.”
― Out of Oz
― Out of Oz

“The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you get- the more specifically you harvest- the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm. Your life and times don’t drain of meaning because they become more contradictory, ornamented by paradox, inexplicable. The less explicable, the more meaning. The less like a mathematics equation (a sum game); the more like music (significant secret).”
― Out of Oz
― Out of Oz
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