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Happy endings are still endings.

Gregory Maguire

Happy Endings, Stills

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It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

Gregory Maguire

Loneliness, Bereavement, Bitter

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In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

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Children, Growing Up, Men

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A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a thief or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.

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Men, Labels, Able

"Fictional character: The Wizard". "Wicked", Broadway musical, 2003.

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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.

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Long Ago, Long

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Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.

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Home, Guilt, Cost

Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.405, Hachette UK

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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.

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Green Fields, Blue, Together

Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.168, Harper Collins

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If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.

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Air, Mad, Doubt

Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.18, Harper Collins

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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-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice.

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Wicked, Gone, Stories

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Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.

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Glowing, Tails, Might

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Even God used silence as a strategy.

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Silence, Strategy, Used

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Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we're lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out.

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Beautiful, Blessed, Saint

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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.

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Flow, Conversation, Said

Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.81, Harper Collins

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The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

Gregory Maguire

Doe, Wickedness, Breakfast

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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

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Eye, Sight, Magic

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... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.

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Destiny, Way, Revolution

Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.235, Hachette UK

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He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.

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Weather, Cold

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The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

Gregory Maguire

Memories, Past, Mind

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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.

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Hunters

Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.234, Hachette UK

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A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.

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Mind, Males, Female

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Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.

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Population, Pardon, Force

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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

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Believe, Together, Done

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Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.

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Knitting, Hands, Two

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The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.

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Wind, Rainbow, Storm

Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.137, Harper Collins

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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 you from convention.

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Long, People, Wicked

Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.383, Hachette UK

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