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

by Gregory Maguire

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. But men don’t dry up, Melena objected; they can father to the death. Ah, we’re slow learners, Nanny countered. But they can’t learn at all.

😂😂😂 oof

“There will be other children.”

jackass

Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.

❤️

The Animals are recalled to the lands of their ancestors, a ploy to give the farmers a sense of control over something anyway. It’s a systematic marginalizing of populations, Glinda, that’s what the Wizard’s all about.”

Feels familiar with certain current themes.

“Only the Unnamed God creates, Glinda. If Miss Greyling confuses sorcery with creation she is in grave danger of corrupting your morals.”

Who are you to discuss anyone else's morals??

“Well,” said Glinda, thinking of Ama Clutch on the bed of mental pain Glinda had once imagined for her, “my morals aren’t in the greatest shape to start out with, Nessa.”

😂😂😂😂😂

“What’s he wearing such silly paint for?” said Avaric. “He only draws attention to himself. And that skin. I wouldn’t want to have skin the color of shit.”

Wow....✨racism✨

“Good thing you can stand on your own two feet, you,” muttered Nanny to Elphaba, and put her old hand patronizingly on Elphaba’s shoulder blades, but Elphaba shrugged it away.

"be greatful you can walk, you don't get to be jealous". If someone who is worse off benefits off of your abandonment, you have every right to be upset. you don't have to accept abuse, because someone else is being helped with your abuse. its not your responsibility to light yourself on fire to keep someone else warm. a real parent wouldn't forget ANY of their children.

“Don’t ruin my small happiness with resentment, will you? He knows you don’t need this kind of thing . . .” “Of course not,” said Elphaba. “Of course I don’t.”

Such bullshit

I expect my girls to obey my command.

Goodness...Aunt Lydia...dat you?? (Handmaid's Tale)

Good for one thing only and not even reliable at that.

😋

Oh, don’t squirm so, your good blood is only on one side and it’s not a terribly refined strain anyway.

Biiitch

The master plans eradicate any appreciable population in that godforsaken place.”

Killing them all??

Was there incense in the air too?

Weed

“His letters sent at Lurlinemas every year are hysterical; they annotate her failed attempts at killing herself like a sort of annual family report.”

Ok this is sick

“I don’t think so,” said Manek, taking a step forward. “She won’t care. She likes the monkey more than she likes you. She won’t even notice if you’re dead.”

Evil children.....wtf

Manek hid under the stairs for a little while. When Nor didn’t come down he decided that behind the altar skirts of the old musty chapel would be an even better hiding place. “Be right back, Liir,” he hissed, but since Liir didn’t answer Manek guessed he was still nursing his grievances.

Uh oh....shouldn't have gotten attached? 😔

“Your children are evil sprites,” Elphie said, in a snit.

She's not wrong....