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Book: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz
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  1. Gregory Maguire _ The Wicked Years Complete

    Some lives are like steps and stairs, every period an achievement built on a previous success. Other lives hum with the arc of the swift spear. Only ever one thing, that dedicated life, from start to finish, but how magnificently concentrated its journey. The trajectory seems so true as to be proof of predestination. Still other lives are more like the progress of a child scrabbling over boulders at a lakeside-now up, now down, always the destination blocked from view. Now a wrenched ankle, now a spilled sandwich, now a fishhook in the face."
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  2. Gregory Maguire _ The Wicked Years Complete

    Frex had a notion that she wasn't sorry to see him go off from time to time, so that she could be glad to see him come back.
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  3. Gregory Maguire _ The Wicked Years Complete

    There was much to hate in this world, and too much to love.
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  4. Gregory Maguire _ The Wicked Years Complete

    Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all.
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  5. Gregory Maguire _ The Wicked Years Complete

    Oh, wary, well, I'm wary of the water I drink, it might be poisoned," said Glinda. "That doesn't mean I stop drinking water.
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  6. Gregory Maguire _ The Wicked Years Complete

    But men don't dry up, Melena objected; they can father to the death. Ah, we're slow learners, Nanny countered. But they can't learn at all.
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  7. Gregory Maguire _ The Wicked Years Complete

    It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.
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  8. Gregory Maguire _ The Wicked Years Complete

    When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis," she said, "those who are the most themselves are the victims.
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  9. Gregory Maguire _ The Wicked Years Complete

    If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, it might be the best way to die.
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