Finding Dorothy

by Elizabeth Letts

all the world’s a stage! Frank had loved to quote Shakespeare.

“It’s the air conditioner,” she said. “Like a heater for cool.”

“Just because you can see a rainbow doesn’t mean you know how to get to the other side. Think about it. That pot of gold—you can’t ever see it, right? You have to take it on faith.”

But Maud had learned some bitter lessons in her life—and perhaps one of the hardest was that you can’t always rescue people, no matter how much you want to.

“Oh, Kansas isn’t the state of Kansas,” Maud said. “Kansas is just the place you’re stuck in, wherever that might be.”

“You always need to fix your own problems. Nobody else is going to fix them for you.”

The fight for all women has got to begin with the women closest to you.”

magic was what you created from hard work and persistence, not something you plucked from thin air.

Magic is when a lot of people all believe in the same thing at the same time, and somehow we all escape ourselves a little bit and we meet up somewhere, and just for a moment, we taste the sublime.”