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• It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.

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  Summer, Flower, Winter

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Confessions Of An Ugly Stepsister: A Novel”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art.

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  Art, Moving, Hands

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.130, Harper Collins

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• You confuse not speaking with not listening.

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  Listening

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.54, Harper Collins

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• All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.

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  Voice, Now And Then, Ends

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.

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  Girl, Needs, Sides

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• Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. [...] We don't get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our licence to return to simpler times. Sooner or later, there's no place remotely like home.

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  Growing Up, Home, Adventure

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• [Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]

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  Mean, Wife, Population

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

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  Hurt, Responsibility, Past

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• Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.

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  Evil, Giving, Normal

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

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  Leaving, Mind, Way

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.104, Harper Collins

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• That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

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  Sadness, Wonderful, Strangeness

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.230, Hachette UK

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

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  Guilt, World, Faces

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• Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense

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  Lying, Struggle, Winning

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.310, Hachette UK

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• Oh now that's a blueprint for an impossibly rosy future

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  Blueprints, Rosy

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.105, 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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• So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.

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  Eye, Hands, World

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• When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.

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  Light, Childhood, Soul

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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 dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.

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  Leaving, World, Littles

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• It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.

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  Important, Doe, Individual

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• Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

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  Drama, Soul, Suffering

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• The storm dropped a house on her head.

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  House, Storm

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.359, Hachette UK

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• I learned failure early and mastered it.

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• No one is exempt from grief.

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  Grief, Sadness, Bereavement

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• No," she cried, "no, no, I'm not a harem, I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, no.

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  Persons, Cried, Harem

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.167, Harper Collins

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