"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness."
— Lemony Snicket

"'You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan"
— Melissa Marr (Wicked Lovely)

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
— Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)

"He looked good, like sin in a suit."
— Melissa Marr

"Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy."
— Melissa Marr (Wicked Lovely)

"No, you're wrong. I'm a hundred percent callow and deeply shallow."
— Fiyero from the musical Wicked

"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."
— Jonathan Swift

"Glinda: Dearest mumsy and popsicle

Elphaba: Mear dear father

Both: There's been some confusion over rooming here at shiz

Elphaba: but of course I'll care for Nessa,

Glinda; but of course I'll riiiiissseee above it

Both: for I know that's how you'd want me to respond, yes. There's been some confusion for you see my roomate is.....

Glinda: Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and all together quite impossible to describe.

Elphaba: Blonde."
— Wicked the Musical

"Popular,
You're gonna be
Popular!
I'll teach you the proper ploys
when you talk to boys!
Little ways to flirt
and flounce!
I'll show you what shoes to wear,
how to fix your hair,
everything that really counts,
to be
POPULAR!!"
— Galinda from Wicked

"Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want. (Amy March to Teddy Lawrence)"
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

"Something has changed within me. Something is not the same. I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game. Too late for second guessing. Too late to go back to sleep. It's time to trust my instincts, close my eyes, and leap. It's time to try defying gravity. I think I'll try defying gravity. And you can't pull me down.

I'm through accepting limits, 'cause someone say's they're so. Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know. Too long I've been afraid of losing love I guess I've lost. Well if that's love it comes at much too high a cost. I'd sooner buy defying gravity. Kiss me good-bye I'm defying gravity. And you can't pull me down."
— Elphaba Wicked the Musical

"She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry."
— Mary Balogh (Slightly Wicked)

"We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive."
— Orson Scott Card

"Cat Fight Scene (SPOILER WARNING)
Glinda: "That's right! You just take that one road the whole time! Oh I hope she doesn't get lost. I am so bad at giving directions. Oh Nessa."
Elphaba: "What a touching display of grief."
Glinda: "I don't think we have anything further to say to one another."
Elphaba: "I wanted something to remember her by. All that was left of her were those shoes. And now that wretched little farmgirl has walked off with them! So if you don't mind I'd like some time alone to say good-bye to my sister. Oh Nessa. Nessa please forgive me."
Glinda: "Elphie, you musn't blame yourself! It's a terrible thing to have a house fall on you but-accidents happen-"
Elphaba: "You call THIS an accident?"
Glinda: "Well no not exactly. More like--a regime change. Cause by a bizarre and unexpected twister of fate."
Elphaba: "Oh so you think cyclones just appear, out of the blue?!"
Glinda: "Well I don't know I never--"
Elphaba: "Of course you never! You're too busy telling everyone how WONDERFUL everything is!"
Glinda: "Well I'm a public figure now. People expect me-"
Elphaba: "To LIE?!"
Glinda: "TO BE ENCOURAGING! Besides, what have you been doing besides riding around on that filthy old thing?"
Elphaba: "Well! We can't all come and go by BUBBLE! Who's invention was that? The Wizards? Of course even if it weren't I'm sure he'd still take credit for it!"
Glinda: "Yes well seems a lot of us are taking things that don't belong to us, aren't we?"
Elphaba: "Now you wait just a clock-tick. I know it may be hard for that blissful, blond brain of yours can comprehend how someone like him could actually choose someone like me. But it's happened. It's real. And you can wave that ridiculous wand all you want and you can't change it. He doesn't love you and he never did, he loves me!"
*Glinda slaps Elphaba. Elphaba cackles.*
Elphaba: "Feel better?"
Glinda: "Yes. I do."
Elphaba: "Good!"
*Elphaba slaps Glinda.*
Elphaba: "SO DO I!"
*Scene continues.*"
— Elphaba and Glinda, Wicked the Musical

"The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life."
— Sigmund Freud (The Interpretation of Dreams)

"When I am wicked I am in high spirits."
— Henry James (The Europeans)

"Elphaba: "No matter how self-absorbed and shallow you pretend to be-"
Fiyero: "There's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.""
— Wicked the Musical

"Where I'm from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true. We call it History."
— The Wizard Wicked the Musical

"Hands touch.
Eyes meet.
Sudden silence.
Sudden heat.
Hearts leap in a giddy whirl.
He could be that boy.
But I'm not that girl."
— Elphaba Wicked the Musical

"It well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime so let me say before we part: So much of me is made of what I learned from you. You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart. And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend."
— Elphaba Wicked the Musical

"This is the Torture Room. But don't let the name fool you. This is a tent, not a room."
— Jeremy C. Shipp (Vacation)

"As wicked as you are... You're beautiful to me.
You're the darkest burning star, you're my perfect disease.
"
— Five Finger Death Punch

"So much happened before Dorothy Dropped in."
— Wicked the Musical

"Where I'm from, the best way to bring people together... is to give them a common enemy."
— The Wizard Wicked the Musical

"I'm the other daughter, Elphaba. I'm beautifully tragic."
— Elphaba Wicked the Musical

""Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?""
— Glinda Wicked the Musical

"I think everyone deserves the chance to fly."
— The Wizard Wicked the Musical

"I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game."
— Elphaba Wicked the Musical

"People who claim that they are evil are usually no more worse than the rest of us. It's people who claim that they are good or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of."
— Gregory McGuire

"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much." He also said, "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
— Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)

"And I've had so many friends! But only one that mattered."
— Glinda Wicked the Musical

"I don't see why you can't just teach us history, instead of always talking about the past."
— Glinda Wicked the Musical

"I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason bringing something we must learn and we are led to those who help us most to grow if we let them and we help them in return. Well I don't know if I believe that's true. But I know I'm who I am today because I knew you."
— Glinda Wicked the Musical

"Elphaba: "And just to clear the air I ask forgiveness for the things I've done you blame me for."
Glinda: "But then I guess we know there's blame to share."
Elphaba/Glinda: "And none of it seems to matter anymore.""
— Elphaba and Glinda Wicked the Musical

"You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart."
— Elphaba Wicked the Musical

"Song: For Good

Elphaba: "I'm limited. Just look at me. I'm limited. And just look at you, you can do all I couldn't do, Glinda. So now it's up to you. For both of us. Now it's up to you."
Glinda: "I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason bringing something we must learn and we are led to those who help us most to grow if we let them and we help them in return. Well I don't know if I believe that's true. But I know I'm who I am today because I knew you. Like a comet pulled from orbit, as it passes a sun. Like a stream that meets a boulder, halfway through the wood. Who can say if I've been changed for the better but, because I knew you. I have been changed for good."
Elphaba: "It well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime so let me say before we part: So much of me is made of what I learned from you. You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart. And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend. Like a ship blown from it's mooring by a wind off the sea. Like a seed dropped by a sky bird in a distant wood. Who can say if I've been changed for the better, but because I knew you-"
Glinda: "Because I knew you-"
Elphaba/Glinda: "I have been changed for good."
Elphaba: "And just to clear the air I ask forgiveness for the things I've done you blame me for."
Glinda: "But then I guess we know there's blame to share."
Elphba/Glinda: "And none of it seems to matter anymore."
Glinda: "Like a comet pulled from orbit-"
Elphaba: "Like a ship blown from it's mooring-"
Glinda: "-as it passes a sun."
Elphaba: "-by a wind off the sea."
Glinda: "Like a stream that meets a boulder halfway through-"
Elphaba: "Like a seed dropped by a bird-"
Elphaba/Glinda: "-the wood. Who can say if I've been changed for the better? I do believe I have been changed for the better."
Glinda: "And, because I knew you-"
Elphaba: "Because I knew you-"
Elphaba/Glinda: "Because I knew you I have been changed for good.""
— Elphaba and Glinda Wicked the Musical

"Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color."
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

"Was I really seeking good, or just seeking attention? Is that all good deeds are when looked at with an ice-cold eye? If that's all good deeds are, maybe that's the reason why no good deed goes unpunished. [Elphaba/the Wicked Witch of the West]"
— Steven Schwartz Wicked the musical

"Well there's no place like home."
— Elphaba Wicked the Musical

"Where I'm from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true. We call it History. A man's called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man's a thief, or philanthropist. Is one a crusader, or ruthless invader? It's all in which label, is able, to persist. There are precious few at ease with more ambiguities. So we act as though they don't exist."
— The Wizard Wicked the Musical

"One must be cunning and wicked in this world."
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

"The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales."
— Jill Paton Walsh ("Templates," Origins of Story, eds. Barbara Harrison & Gregory Maguire)

"For one short wet month early in the next year the drought lifted. Spring tipped in like green well water frothing at the hedges bubbling at the roadside splashing from the cottage roof in garlands of ivy and stringflower "
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

"I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list."
— Ginn Hale (Wicked Gentlemen)