Eleanor Ryner

“We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“And in the cave there lived a wicked old witch.

Did she ever come out?

Not yet.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“He kissed her, he kissed her, he kissed her, little by little by little.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“No one is exempt from grief.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West