Wicked Quotes

“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.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.”
― Shannon Celebi, Driving Off Bridges

“For an absurd moment, I wondered if Ammit devoured the hearts of wicked cows, and if he liked the beefy taste.

- Carter Kane”
― Rick Riordan, The Serpent's Shadow

“Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“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.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Of course. You get everything from books.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trism lived in Liir's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary memory of the best of Trism's glinting virtues sometimes kicked up unquietable spasms of longing.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“For the righteous, the revelation is a joyous event, the realization of a divine truth. But for the wicked, revelations can be far more terrifying, when dark secrets are exposed and sinners are punished for their trespasses.”
― Emily Thorne

“I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.”
― Gregory Maguire

“People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It’s the people who claim that they’re good, or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of. - Boq (WICKED)”
― Gregory Maguire

“The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.”
― Jill Paton Walsh

“And now, these books. This. He touched PHYSIOGNOMONIE. The secrets of the individual's character as found on his face. Were Jim and Will, then, featured all angelic, pure, half-innocent, peering up through the sidewalk at marching terror? Did the boys represent the ideal for your Woman, Man, or Child of Excellent Bearing, Color, Balance, and Summer Disposition?
Converserly...Charles Halloway turned a page...did the scurrying freaks, the Illustrated Marvel, bear the foreheads of the Irascible, the Cruel, the Covetous, the mouths of the Lewd and Untruthful? the teeth of the Crafty, the Unstable, the Audacious, the Vainglorious, and your Marvelous Beast?
No. The book slipped shut. If faces were judged, the freaks were no worse than many he'd been slipping from the liberty late nights in his long career.
There was only one thing sure.
Two lines of Shakespeare said it. He should write them in the middle of the clock of books, to fix the heart of his apprehension:
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
So vague yet so immense.
He did not want to live with it.
Yet he knew that, during this night, unless he lived with it very well, he might have to live with it for all the rest of his life.
At the window he looked out and thought Jim, Will, are you coming? will you get here?
Waiting, his flesh took paleness from his bones.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“[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.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“TRUTH


Whenever you stand up
For your conscience,
Be prepared to be hated
By the wicked.
But never, ever,
Let that scare you;
For whenever you
Stand up for God,
By him,
You are loved.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear yet...She was, after all, on her way to Shiz because she was smart.
But there was more than one way to be smart.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“In her time Nor Tigelaar had faced insurrectionists and collaborationists and war profiteers. She'd endured abduction and prison and self-mutilation. She'd sold herself in sex not for cash but for military information that might come in handy to the resistance, and in so doing she'd come across a rum variety of human types.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“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 ”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Well, siblings can be overrated.”
― Emily Fields

“That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?”
― Gregory Maguire

“Surely there is the handful of nursery marchen that start, ‘Once in the middle of a forest lived an old witch’ or ‘The devil was out walking one day and met a child,’ " Said Oatsie, who was showing that she had some education as well as grit. "To the grim poor there need be no pour quoi tale about where evil arises; it always is. 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 the devil? It is at the very least a question of definitions.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“I wondered why people change. Wajid Shaikh's words resonated deeply: "How some people forced that person to write, who taught us that meeting people is necessary,”
― Wajid Shaikh, Sukoon

“She wasn’t the only one who had a tendency to imagine, it was simply that while her father would say she thought too much of the beautiful, he worried too much over the wicked.”
― Ian Kirkpatrick, American Princess

“Rowan moved deeper into the entry hall, every step laced with power and death, coming to a stop at her side. "You can call me Rowan. That's all you need to know." He cocked his head to the side, a predator assessing prey. "Thank you for the oil," he added. "My skin was a little dry.”
― Sara J Maas

“Rowen moved deeper into the entry hall, every step laced with power and death, coming to a stop at her side. "You can call me Rowan. That's all you need to know." He cocked his head to the side, a predator assessing prey. "Thank you for the oil," he added. "My skin was a little dry.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“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.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“For Idina Menzel and for Cynthia Erivo and for all the Elphabas, past and to come”
― Gregory Maguire, Elphie: A Wicked Childhood

“Everything about the place was screaming desire. The waitresses themselves looked like it was wicked ballerinas’ side hustle.”
― Armonia Sole, Abelard and Heloise: Youth and friendship

“I have known ‘wicked’ men who saved innocent lives, and ‘righteous’ men who burned villages believing they served the light. The state of a man’s soul and the worth of his actions are not always the same coin.”
― Pixelatedm

“We can’t go back, Carter,” Mom said, as if reading my mind. “But
nothing is lost, even in death. Do you remember the law of conservation?”
It had been six years since we’d sat together in the living room—this
living room, and she’d read me the laws of physics the way most parents read
bedtime stories. But I still remembered. “Energy and matter can’t be
created or destroyed.”
“Only changed,” my mother agreed. “And sometimes changed for the
better.”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid