Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years, #1)

by Gregory Maguire

She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear to her yet.

“I don’t read very well. So I don’t think I think very well either.” Galinda smiled. “I dress to kill, though.”

“I’m sorry I ever said I was curious. I’m curious about death, too, but I can wait to find out, thank you.

“It’s unbecoming,” she agreed. “A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.

How can one have an opinion about such things? Old and female as we are?” She smiled to include them all. The sisters and Sarima glared as youthfully as they could back at her.

“I shall pray for your soul,” promised Nessarose. “I shall wait for your shoes,” Elphie answered.