“Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless.” WickedWitchAdulthoodCarelessAdultCarefreeElphabaWicked Witch Of The WestGlindaSon Of A WitchElphaba ThroppNessaroseNiirNiir Thropp Author:Gregory Maguire
“Perhaps he just didn't have the feeling for faith. It seemed to be a kind of language, one whose gnarled syntax needed to be heard from birth, or it remained forever unintelligible. But he wished he had a faith now, some scrap for something: for elphaba was dead, and to act as if the world were no more changed than if some branch of a tree had snapped off- well, it didn't seem right.” ElphabaSon Of A WitchLirr Author:Gregory Maguire
“The horizon was frosted with a greenish smear, as if ranks of campfires from distant tribes had divined the news already and were burning an homage to Elphaba before the sun could set on the day of her death. He could smell her in the collar of the cape, and he wept for the first time.” ElphabaLiirSon Of A Witch Author:Gregory Maguire
“But he found himself rounding syllables like stones in his mouth, silently. He knew he was shy, and thought to be stupid; he was beginning to suspect, thought, that he wasn't stupid. Perhaps not even slow. Merely uneducated. But not, he hoped, uneducable.” Gregory MaguireLiirGregorySon Of A Witch Author:Gregory Maguire
“All tyrants were harsh, but fire was more ungovernable than most.” Gregory MaguireLiirGregorySon Of A Witch Author:Gregory Maguire