Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

You're fun to look at," decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-

Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity