I do not listen when anyone uses the word immoral," said the Wizard. "In the young it is ridiculous, in the old it is sententious and reactionary and an early warning sign of apoplexy. In the middle-aged, who love and fear the idea of moral life the most, it is hypocritical.

Gregory Maguire

Tag: morality aging



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Then, abrupt and decisive, the Emerald City rose before them. A city of insistence, of blanket declaration. It made no sense, clotting up the horizon, sprouting like a mirage on the characterless plains of central Oz. Glinda hated it from the moment she saw it. Brash upstart of a city.

Gregory Maguire


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Liir held Chistery in his lap and sobbed into his scalp. Chistery said, "Well, we'll wail while woe'll wheel," and he cried along with Liir.

Gregory Maguire

Tag: alliteration



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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.

Gregory Maguire


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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

Tag: wicked oz elphaba liir brrr out-of-oz



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

Gregory Maguire


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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.

Gregory Maguire


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We stand at a crossroads. Idolatry looms. Traditional values in jeopardy. Truth under siege and virtue abandoned.

Gregory Maguire


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I never talk about the end game." He winked at her. "I've lived so long without death that I've stopped believing in it.

Gregory Maguire


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Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history

Gregory Maguire

Tag: history story tale



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