„The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.“

—  Gregory Maguire, buch Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz

Quelle: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

„Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.“

—  Gregory Maguire, buch A Lion Among Men

Quelle: A Lion Among Men

„I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose.
I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.“

—  Gregory Maguire, buch Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz

Quelle: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

„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.“

—  Gregory Maguire, buch Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz

Quelle: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

„I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.“

—  Gregory Maguire, buch Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz

Quelle: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

„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

„In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.“

—  Gregory Maguire, buch Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz

Quelle: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

„They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.“

—  Gregory Maguire, buch Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz

Quelle: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

„Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.“

—  Gregory Maguire, buch Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz

Quelle: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

„There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors“

—  Gregory Maguire, buch Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz

Quelle: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

„I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.“

—  Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

Quelle: Out of Oz

„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, buch Son of a Witch

Quelle: Son of a Witch

„The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.“

—  Gregory Maguire, buch Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz

Quelle: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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

—  Gregory Maguire, buch Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Quelle: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

„Always the bridesmaid, never the bride."
Always the godfather, never the god".“

—  Gregory Maguire, buch Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz

Quelle: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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

—  Gregory Maguire, buch Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz

Quelle: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

„Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.“

—  Gregory Maguire, buch A Lion Among Men

Quelle: A Lion Among Men

„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.“

—  Gregory Maguire, buch Wicked – Die Hexen von Oz

Quelle: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

„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.“

—  Gregory Maguire, buch A Lion Among Men

Quelle: A Lion Among Men