Jessica C

“You mean you indulged in adultery and you dont' even have the benefit of a good saucy memory about it.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Why should I keep myself so safe?” he asked her, but he was almost asking himself. What is there in my life worth preserving? With a good wife back there in the mountains, serviceable as an old spoon, dry in the heart from having been scared of marriage since she was six? With three children so shy of their father, the Prince of the Arjikis, that they will hardly come near him? With a careworn clan moving here, moving there, going through th same disputes, herding the same herds, as thy have done for five hundred years? And me, with a shallow and undirected mind, no artfulness in word or habit, no especial kindness toward the world? What is there that makes my life worth preserving?

“I love you,” said Elphaba.

“So that’s that then, and that’s it,” he answered her and himself. “And I love you. So I promise to be careful.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“It wasn't my fault, yet I could have prevented it.”
― John Ellington