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

What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.

Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.

The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.