Wicked / Son of a Witch Quotes

“A capacity for interiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation to squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hollowness. The syndrome especially plagues anyone who lives behind a mask...A hundred ways to duck the question: how will I live with myself now that I know what I know?”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked / Son of a Witch

“A notion of character, not so much discredited as simply forgotten, once held that people only came into themselves partway through their lives.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked / Son of a Witch