Gregory Maguire Wicked Quotes

#1. I had written children's books for 14 years before I published 'Wicked.' And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.

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#2. You always said I could see the present," said Candle, when she could speak. "But I can see nothing about her - my own daughter." Liir smoothed his hand over her silky flank. "Maybe that's not so surprising. Maybe all parents are blindest to their own offspring.

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#3. Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

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#4. [after discussion about what evil is, a question asked to Elphaba on why she killed Madame Morrible]
"Why did you do it?" asked the hostess with spirit.
The Witch shrugged. "For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

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#5. And in the cave there lived a wicked old witch. Did she ever some out? Not yet.

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#6. Come what may and hell to pay.

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#7. How truly novel. The emotional life of furniture. I never.

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#8. I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

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#9. Love makes hunters of us all.

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#10. 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.

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#11. That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

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#12. One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions.

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#13. This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

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#14. 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.

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#15. Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.

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#16. Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing
by dint of ignorance and innocence
that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.

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#17. Good gracious, dear, all of life is a spell. You know that.

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#18. 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.

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#19. Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.

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#20. And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.'
Did she ever come out?'
Not yet.

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#21. And there the wicked old witch stayed for a good long time ... And did she ever come out? ... Not yet.

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#22. Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.

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#23. Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it?

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#24. You charming idiot.

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#25. Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.

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#26. Of course. You get everything from books.

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#27. To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

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#28. He set out once more, with a sense that his life would be rich in setting outs, and perhaps poorer in homecomings.

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#29. We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

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#30. One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

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#31. Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger

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#32. When I began 'Wicked', I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that there should ever be a follow up, because the subtitle was 'The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West'. She was dead and gone, as the book says, at the end.

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#33. Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

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#34. 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.

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#35. We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of burning neuroses acting ourselves wicked. And nothing to be done about it. And nothing to be done about it.

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#36. I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes ... let it go!

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#37. For one short wet month early in the next year the drought lifted. Spring tipped in like green well water frothing at the hedges bubbling at the roadside splashing from the cottage roof in garlands of ivy and stringflower

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