Gregory Maguire Long Quotations

She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she...

People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.