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

“It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to begin with.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Within a few moments the last of day became the first of night, a magic as peculiar and welcome as any other.”
― Gregory Maguire

“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