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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.

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You're fun to look at," decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-

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That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.

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Are you the dart?" he said. "Are you the knife? The fuse?" She said (though he wasn't convinced): "My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad...

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We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isn't as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness

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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

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The decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.

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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

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Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?

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I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.

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I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I'd rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

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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.

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This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

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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?

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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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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.

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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.

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So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

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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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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

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

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The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

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I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.

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

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Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.

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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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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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