[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]

The storm dropped a house on her head.

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.

In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

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 thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.