“She had been both good and wicked and everything in between. She had been both at once, too, until it was hard for her to even tell the difference anymore.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“You can’t just cover your eyes and pretend like terrible things aren’t happening simply because you can’t see them,”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“Faith: everyone knows it’s something you’re supposed to have, but it’s harder to put that into practice when your senses are telling you all hope is lost.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“Evil will always catch up with you. That’s why you have to get to it first.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“Look, fear’s not always rational, okay? Anyway, there’s a difference between being afraid and being a coward. At least there was one thing I could take comfort in: if you’re afraid, you must still be a little bit human.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“Somewhere inside you, I hope you know who you are. I hope you know what you are. I hope you know that you're powerful. We need you.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“The Wizard was from a place called America, and to him, a female ruler was a strange and unsettling notion.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“That witch talks a big game, but she couldn’t be a bigger candy-ass if she dropped her pink little undies and sat on a pile of gumdrops.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“You don't have to promise me the moon or the stars, just promise me you will stand under them with me.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“Meet the new witch, same as the old bitch. We monkeys have dinged enough dongs to know.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“But really what I mean by crappy is, like—you know—not very good at it. Like, if there were a Witch Mall, Glamora would work at Witch Neiman Marcus, Mombi would work at Witch Talbot’s and I would work at the Witch Dollar Store, where people would only come to buy witch paper towels, six rolls for ninety-nine cents.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“It was like that old show This Is Your Life, except this version was called This Is Why You Suck.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“The monkey village was like the world’s coolest tree house crossed with something out of a Swiss Family Robinson theme party thrown by Martha Stewart.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“I knew, on some level, that what I was seeing was the real Oz. I had pulled back the curtain and stepped through it, but instead of finding a humbug wizard, I’d found the controls to the whole operation—and it turned out the whole operation was made out of what appeared to be magical silly string.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“The despicable crone known as Mombi stands accused of high witchery, gross dishonesty, untold crimes against monkeys, outrageous trespassing, and general unpleasantness. Also, she is extremely unattractive. Miss Amy, do you speak for the witch?”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“Okay, so I was crying, too. Only a little bit. Even a wicked witch like me has a heart, you know?”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“Remember—don’t be wicked. Unless you really have to!” Parting”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“If I wanted a load of baloney, I would've had a cold cut platter brought it!" -Lulu”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“Yes I might have been quiet and shy, the kind of person who did my best to keep my head down just to get through the day. But even then, I had never let people walk all over me. Even in the days when I didn't know a left hook from a karate kick, I'd still always found my own ways of fighting for the things I believed in" -Amy”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“We all know that broad's about six stamps short of first class these days.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“don't be wicked. Unless you really have to!”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“I had one weakness: kindness. And kindness is a weakness. I can see that now. But it's a weakness I'm still not sure I'd want to give up entirely.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“It made such perfect sense that I felt stupid for not thinking of it earlier. Duh. You couldn’t find the Island of Lost Things until you had gotten yourself lost beyond any hope of finding. If I’d given up an hour, or a day ago, it would have appeared that much quicker. So much for quitters never win.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“Valora todas las cosas que has hecho, y todas las cosas que te quedan por hacer. De acuerdo, tal vez haya cosas que podrían mejorar, pero la vida te está esperando.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“Es curioso lo rápido que una se acostumbra a la locura, ¿verdad?”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“If you've never seen a rainbow burn, consider yourself lucky.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“He took a step backward toward the door and held up his hands, looking as guilty and sheepish as someone who has just been caught shoplifting a Hostess Twinkie from the Piggly Wiggly.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“If there's something to be involved in, you can be sure that witches will always be lurking nearby.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“the formerly majestic towers and skyscrapers collapsing in on themselves in confetti-bursts of jewel and glass. It could have been beautiful, except for the dense, black mushroom cloud of smoke that hovered ominously over the skyline. I was a long-ass way from Kansas.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“It’s funny how quickly you adjust to insanity.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
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“The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, quote from Mrs Craddock
“There was a peal of laughter from the girls. Then, before anyone could say a word, the line was seen to move a fraction. A bite at last! The sage yanked in for all he was worth. The rod crashed into a protruding rock and broke clean in two.”
― Cao Xueqin, quote from The Debt of Tears
“Better to suffer the loneliness of the cold throne room than endure the isolation to be found within the crowds of facile courtiers.”
― Stuart Hill, quote from The Last Battle of the Icemark
“In this mortal frame of mine which is made of a hundred bones and nine orifices there is something, and this something is called a wind-swept spirit for lack of a better name, for it is much like a thin drapery that is torn and swept away at the slightest stir of the wind. This something in me took to writing poetry years ago, merely to amuse itself at first, but finally making it its lifelong business. It must be admitted, however, that there were times when it sank into such dejection that it was almost ready to drop its pursuit, or again times when it was so puffed up with pride that it exulted in vain victories over the others. Indeed, ever since it began to write poetry, it has never found peace with itself, always wavering between doubts of one kind and another. At one time it wanted to gain security by entering the service of a court, and at another it wished to measure the depth of its ignorance by trying to be a scholar, but it was prevented from either because of its unquenchable love of poetry. The fact is, it knows no other art than the art of writing poetry, and therefore, it hangs on to it more or less blindly.”
― Matsuo Bashō, quote from Backroads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal
“I can't work in a house where there's saints. The minute there's saints, the devil sends messengers”
― Timothy Findley, quote from The Piano Man's Daughter
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