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

by Gregory Maguire

“She said Elphaba will be more than you credit,

history belonged to two sisters, not a single girl.

“these two idiots were flirting like schoolgirls,

Turtle Heart turned. Frex had come back to him, to throw an arm around him and hold him up,

I'm Sensing a bromance but also the mom likes turtle heart? Maybe a throuple lol?

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

She was, after all, on her way to Shiz because she was smart.

I fear they may have dumbed her down

Dillamond found her a carriage with a human driver, and directed him to Crage Hall and paid him in advance,

At the earliest perfect opportunity she would bring it out as proof of her having opinions—and of having traveled.

Oh, are you bothered by the green? Well, it might do you some good, if you let it.

It was beautiful hair, in an odd, awful way, with a shine like the pelt of a healthy giltebeest. Black silk. Coffee spun into threads. Night rain. Galinda, not given to metaphor on the whole, found Elphaba’s hair entrancing, the more so because the girl was otherwise so ugly.

Galinda was slow coming to terms with actual learning. She had considered her admission into Shiz University as a sort of testimony to her brilliance, and believed that she would adorn the halls of learning with her beauty and occasional clever sayings.

Yeah no I was wrong I don't think she's intelligent

“Looks are only looks,”

a child who has never remembered having a dream being told to have sweet dreams.

tossing her curls and striking a pose,

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

if ministers are effective, they’re good at asking questions to get you to think. I don’t think they’re supposed to have the answers. Not necessarily.”

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

Animals should be seen and not heard.