Riley Yates

“Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
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― 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

“Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West