Natalie

“...Where shall I say you've gone?"
She threw an arm about airily. "Oh, way up high. Over the rainbow somewhere, I guess.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“She would emerge. She always had before. The punishing political climate of Oz had beat her down, dried her up, tossed her away—like a seedling she had drifted, apparently too desiccated ever to take root. But surely the curse was on the land of Oz, not on her. Though Oz had given her a twisted life, hadn’t it also made her capable?”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“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