Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.
("Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West")
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.Gregory Maguire
Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.
Gregory Maguire
Those who don't try never look foolish.
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All these last months he had begun to talk about Sarima and the family as if they were ghosts, hiding just around the curve of the spiral staircase in the tower, suppressing giggles at this long, long game of hide-and-seek.
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Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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