History plays for keeps; individuals play for time. - Gregory Maguire
Come what may and hell to pay. - Gregory Maguire
Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents. - Gregory Maguire
Oh, mercy, there is nothing monstrously ugly about you. Ruth may be unpleasing, but you are merely plain. If anything, it's my beauty that's monstrous, for it sweeps away any other aspect of my character. - Gregory Maguire
Night-time is being brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away. - Gregory Maguire
Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without. - Gregory Maguire
Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger-- - Gregory Maguire
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? - Gregory Maguire
You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle. - Gregory Maguire
What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine. - Gregory Maguire
No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it. - Gregory Maguire