The Wicked Will Rise Quotes

“You can’t just cover your eyes and pretend like terrible things aren’t happening simply because you can’t see them,”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“She had been both good and wicked and everything in between. She had been both at once, too, until it was hard for her to even tell the difference anymore.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“Faith: everyone knows it’s something you’re supposed to have, but it’s harder to put that into practice when your senses are telling you all hope is lost.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“Evil will always catch up with you. That’s why you have to get to it first.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“Somewhere inside you, I hope you know who you are. I hope you know what you are. I hope you know that you're powerful. We need you.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“Look, fear’s not always rational, okay? Anyway, there’s a difference between being afraid and being a coward. At least there was one thing I could take comfort in: if you’re afraid, you must still be a little bit human.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“Meet the new witch, same as the old bitch. We monkeys have dinged enough dongs to know.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“The Wizard was from a place called America, and to him, a female ruler was a strange and unsettling notion.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“That witch talks a big game, but she couldn’t be a bigger candy-ass if she dropped her pink little undies and sat on a pile of gumdrops.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“You don't have to promise me the moon or the stars, just promise me you will stand under them with me.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“But really what I mean by crappy is, like—you know—not very good at it. Like, if there were a Witch Mall, Glamora would work at Witch Neiman Marcus, Mombi would work at Witch Talbot’s and I would work at the Witch Dollar Store, where people would only come to buy witch paper towels, six rolls for ninety-nine cents.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“If you've never seen a rainbow burn, consider yourself lucky.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“It’s funny how quickly you adjust to insanity.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“I had one weakness: kindness. And kindness is a weakness. I can see that now. But it's a weakness I'm still not sure I'd want to give up entirely.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“When I’d dreamed of getting away from Kansas, what I’d really wanted was to find a place I could matter. Where I could be someone, and have a purpose. Now I had found the place where I belonged. Yeah, it might have been nice if it had been a fairyland with fewer problems—someplace a little harder to mistake for a nightmare—but on the other hand, the more I settled”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“If there's something to be involved in, you can be sure that witches will always be lurking nearby.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“It made such perfect sense that I felt stupid for not thinking of it earlier. Duh. You couldn’t find the Island of Lost Things until you had gotten yourself lost beyond any hope of finding. If I’d given up an hour, or a day ago, it would have appeared that much quicker. So much for quitters never win.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“Yes I might have been quiet and shy, the kind of person who did my best to keep my head down just to get through the day. But even then, I had never let people walk all over me. Even in the days when I didn't know a left hook from a karate kick, I'd still always found my own ways of fighting for the things I believed in" -Amy”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“The despicable crone known as Mombi stands accused of high witchery, gross dishonesty, untold crimes against monkeys, outrageous trespassing, and general unpleasantness. Also, she is extremely unattractive. Miss Amy, do you speak for the witch?”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“The monkey village was like the world’s coolest tree house crossed with something out of a Swiss Family Robinson theme party thrown by Martha Stewart.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“nun dancing the hoochie coochie on Sunday morning.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“Why shouldn’t he be king? he wondered. (Never mind that, in all its history, Oz had only had queens. The Wizard was from a place called America, and to him, a female ruler was a strange and unsettling notion.)”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“You can’t just cover your eyes and pretend like terrible things aren’t happening simply because you can’t see them, even if that is something that would seem like a good idea to a monkey. Evil will always catch up with you. That’s why you have to get to it first.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“That witch talks a big game, but she couldn’t be a bigger candy-ass if she dropped her pink little undies and sat on a pile of gumdrops. Now what about the rest of the witches—what about the Order?”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“don't be wicked. Unless you really have to!”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“We all know that broad's about six stamps short of first class these days.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“If I wanted a load of baloney, I would've had a cold cut platter brought it!" -Lulu”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“Es curioso lo rápido que una se acostumbra a la locura, ¿verdad?”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“Valora todas las cosas que has hecho, y todas las cosas que te quedan por hacer. De acuerdo, tal vez haya cosas que podrían mejorar, pero la vida te está esperando.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise

“He took a step backward toward the door and held up his hands, looking as guilty and sheepish as someone who has just been caught shoplifting a Hostess Twinkie from the Piggly Wiggly.”
― Danielle Paige, The Wicked Will Rise