Natalie

“I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Everyone has a right to love the land that gave them the things they need to live. It gives them beauty to look at, and food to eat, and neighbors to bicker with and then eventually to marry. But I think... that your own devotion to your familiar homeland should inspire you to allow other people to embrace their homelands as beautiful too.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“It’s the age of daring. It’s the only time we have. We must live in the present. We are young and alive.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“With all those stars in the sky, why isn't there enough light for us to see by? We stumble like blinded sheep.'

'As you can see, it is clouding over. The stars can't pierce the gloom; they just wait it out. That isn't the stars fault. It is their custom to stay heavenly.”
― Gregory Maguire, Egg & Spoon