And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.

This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense

They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.

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