#wicked

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

#malice #misdirection #wicked #wicked-witch-of-the-west #life

Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#life

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

#stepchildren #wicked #life

Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#dorothy #hope #ignorance #innocence #philosophy

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#keenan #melissa-marr #wicked-lovely #love

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#belief #capable #every #evil #men

I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list. ↗

— Ginn Hale

#wicked-gentlemen #men

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

— Gregory Maguire

#fantasy #wicked #men

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#dishonesty #evil #gender #inequality #men

Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them? ↗

— Glinda Wicked the musical

#wicked #wickedness #music