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.

“Though what a child, that sips blood even before its first suck of mother’s milk!”

Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.

But I remember once when a tinker with a funny accent gave me a draft of some heady brew from a green glass bottle. And I had rare expansive dreams, Nanny, of the Other World—cities of glass and smoke—noise and color—I tried to remember.”

Melena found herself jealous of a female not yet two years old.

Dafuq is wrong with this lady

the father-daughter pact against the world).

Now he has a bond? A few sentences ago, it clearly said that Elphaba was cautious around Frex, but apparently calling her Fabala was a bonding thing? After he tried to exorcise the poor girl?

his mouth roamed, his cock rose and nudged and leaned, his breath was somewhere other than his mouth, hissing elegantly into her ear, wordlessly, his arms were like stirrups.

Ma'am, I just watched a lady on instagram saying that the Wicked book is very different from the musical and the film, and to not buy the book blindly to kids. A retired teacher, as he claimed, said it is quite fine for at least a 15 year old, especially if they are mature readers. Umm... I'm not even 25% into the book and THIS LINE RIGHT HERE should NOT be read by a 15 year old. That's all I wanted to say.

“Horrors,” said Elphaba. It was her first word, and it was greeted with silence.

As the water to run red with rubies it will to run with the blood of Quadlings.”

Quadligs will die then?

“The danger is a foreigner,” said Turtle Heart, “not a home-grown king or queen. The old women, and the shamans, and the dying: They to see a stranger king, cruel and mighty.”

Is this a foreshadowing of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz?

Yackle sounded quite sure that history belonged to two sisters, not a single girl.