The Wickeds Quotes

“Why had she asked a mirror—or anyone for that matter—to tell her who she was?”
― Gayle Forman, The Wickeds

“She was neither beautiful nor ugly. Neither loving nor vicious. Neither wicked nor good. She was all of those things.

We all are.”
― Gayle Forman, The Wickeds

“You know, the portrait gallery is full of paintings of men who’ve killed those who have wronged them,” Elsinora said. “But they’re not called villains. They’re called heroes.”
― Gayle Forman, The Wickeds

“Optics can be a bitch.”
― Gayle Forman, The Wickeds

“Cinderella’s wicked stepmother, whose real name, by the way, is Gwendolyn”
― Gayle Forman, The Wickeds

“When exactly had the mirror stopped singing her praises and started whispering her doubts? And why had she gone back to it day after day? Why had she asked a mirror—or anyone for that matter—to tell her who she was? But then again, why do any of us?”
― Gayle Forman, The Wickeds

“another chapter of the same old story, written, still, by someone else’s invisible hand.”
― Gayle Forman, The Wickeds

“She was neither beautiful nor ugly. Neither loving nor vicious. Neither wicked nor good. She was all of those things. We all are.”
― Gayle Forman, The Wickeds

“Why had she asked a mirror—or anyone for that matter—to tell her who she was? But then again, why do any of us?”
― Gayle Forman, The Wickeds

“They’d known, of course, that the burden of beauty was carried by women—after all, there were never any men in the waiting room at Dr. Youngblood’s—but it was only when they’d relieved themselves of the weight that they understood how heavy it was.”
― Gayle Forman, The Wickeds

“What do you think? Am I ugly?” she asked her friends. But Marguerite was beyond beauty. She was something else. Powerful.”
― Gayle Forman, The Wickeds

“I guess happily-ever-afters aren’t meant for people like us,” Elsinora said. She didn’t know—none of us did yet—that there was no such thing as a happily-ever-after. Not for any of us.”
― Gayle Forman, The Wickeds

“Her father did steal into my garden one night and take something dear from me,” she said. “But it was something far more precious than rampion.”
― Gayle Forman, The Wickeds

“And for a moment, the women lost themselves in the nostalgia for an earlier, easier time, before their daughters, and the world, turned against them.”
― Gayle Forman, The Wickeds

“Cinderella’s wicked stepmother, whose real name, by the way, is Gwendolyn.”
― Gayle Forman, The Wickeds