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• Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

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  Math, Hard Times, Two

  Gregory Maguire (2010). “What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy”, p.62, Candlewick Press

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

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  Weather, Cold

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• The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you get- the more specifically you harvest- the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm. Your life and times don’t drain of meaning because they become more contradictory, ornamented by paradox, inexplicable. The less explicable, the more meaning. The less like a mathematics equation (a sum game); the more like music (significant secret).

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  Games, Live Your Life, Secret

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• They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.

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  Love, Expression, Lust

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

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  Falling In Love, Love Is, Wicked

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.171, Harper Collins

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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.

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  Memories, Past, Mind

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• That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.

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  Teaching, Personality, Littles

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.119, Harper Collins

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• ...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.

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  Love, Littles, Little Love

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• ...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.

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  Missing, Charity, Kind

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• It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so many ways, depending on who is doing the telling, and what needs to be heard at the time. It is a matter of history, however, that shortly thereafter, the Wizard absconded from the Palace. He left in the way he had first arrived-- a hot-air balloon-- just a few hours before seditious ministers were to lead a Palace revolt and to hold an execution without trial.

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  Heart, Air, Glasses

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• The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.

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  Facts, Reason, Agree

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

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• Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.

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  Children, Parent, Generations

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• When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

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  Air, Crucible, Victim

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• Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.

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  Forgiving, Way

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• Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

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  Children, Silly, Animal

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• Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

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  Loss, Gone, Gorgeous

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• It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.

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  Perfect, New Life, Becoming

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.165, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Hero, Heart, Moonlight

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.171, Harper Collins

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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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• ...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.

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  Lying, Healthy, Vengeance

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• Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle

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  Memories, Heart, Body

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• She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.

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  Beautiful, Hands, Boards

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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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• The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

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  Entertainment, Civilized

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.346, Hachette UK

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