To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.

Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.