“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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“What drives society forward is having a strong backbone of people willing to do the jobs that their leaders don’t want to dirty their hands with.”
― Helen Harper, quote from Slouch Witch
“Así es como vivo. Vivo a la vez en un mundo real y en otro irreal. Y no sé dónde estoy mejor.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, quote from Voces de Chernóbil: Crónica del futuro
“So understood, anarchism is the inheritor of the classical liberal ideas that emerged from the Enlightenment. It is part of a broader range of libertarian socialist thought and action that ranges from the left anti-Bolshevik Marxism of Anton Pannekoek, Karl Korsch, Paul Mattick, and others, to the anarcho-syndicalism that crucially includes the practical achievements of revolutionary Spain in 1936, reaching further to worker-owned enterprises spreading today in the Rust Belt of the United States, in northern Mexico, in Egypt, and in many other countries, most extensively in the Basque country in Spain, also encompassing the many cooperative movements around the world and a good part of feminist and civil and human rights initiatives.”
― Noam Chomsky, quote from What Kind of Creatures Are We?
“There is no suspension, no whispered prayer for silk to stop my fall. There is only the falling, and it goes on and on, in fierce silence and sharp bursts of breath.”
― Kermit Roosevelt III, quote from Allegiance
“But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.”
― Margaret Atwood, quote from The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics)
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