Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.

It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.

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

Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.