gregory maguire quotes

"In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats."
Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Galinda seemed to give up. She leaned her head back on the velvet cushions of the swing and said, "Boq, you know despite myself I think you're a little sweet. You're a little sweet and you're a little charming and you're a little maddening and you're a little habit-forming."
Boq held his breath.
"But you're little!" she concluded. "You're a Munchkin, for god's sake!"
He kissed her, he kissed her, he kissed her, little by little by little.
- Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West


Was it an accident I saw that, Fiyero wondered,
looking at the manager with new eyes.
Or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you,
again and again, as soon as you are ready to see it anew?.

GM, Wicked

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