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And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-al...

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell...

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom,...

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

What's big, thick, makes the earth move, and wants to have its way with you?" "I don't know, but can you introduce me?

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates y...

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

The world was floods above and fire below

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give up. She leaned her head back on the velvet cushions of the swing and said, 'Boq, you know despite myself I think yo...

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Do you expect to learn anything at Shiz?” he asked. “I have already learned not to speak to strangers.” “Then I will introduce myself and we will be strangers no longer. I am Dillamond.” “I am disinclined to know you.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

He lingered at the door, and said, 'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you want?'... She couldn't say not to Liir. She started to say 'a soldier,' to make fun of his mooning affect...

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figur...

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West