Post by daemona on Mar 10, 2007 9:47:18 GMT -5
I´m just through with the book and i totally love it :-)
I guess if I was to have a daughter anytime soon the poor girl would end up with the name Aelphaba ;D
Boys study, girls know,
That´s the way that lessons go.
(oh how i love to tease my bf with that one ;-))
~~~~
She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that
because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she
signified and to whom, was not clear to her yet.
(well, simply know too many women it fits to...)
~~~~
Brightness as you know, decays brilliantly. Madness is the most
shining way...
(sad, but true?)
~~~~
Shard by shard she rearranges the world.
It looks the same, she says, but it is not.
It looks as they expect, but it is not.
'Beware whom you serve,' said the Wizard of Oz."
~~~~
I never use the word humanist or humanitarian, as it
seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most
heinos crimes in nature.
~~~~
If you suppress the idea of personhood then you supress the
notion of individual culpability (...) it´s a blind excuse for crime.
~~~~
Is it that the world unwraps itself to you, again and again,
as soon as you are ready to see it anew?
~~~~
He asked himself, again and again, if he was in love wit Elphaba (...) and if he knew what the words even meant; and if it mattered.
(just very cute i think...)
~~~~
One never learns how the witch became wicked, or wether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It
is at the very least a question of definitions.
~~~~
There were more ways to live than the ones given bye one's superiors.
~~~~
When the times are crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
~~~~
Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
~~~~
Who do we ever see but ourselves, and that's the curse...
~~~~
Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing - by dint of ignorance and innocence - that beneath this unbreakable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way. A more ancient precedent of ransom, that we may not always be tormented by our shame.
~~~~
'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you want?'
(...)
She couldn´t say forgiveness (...) and in the end what came out of her mouth surprised them both. She said, 'A soul-'
~~~~
And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no after, in the ever after of a Witch, there is no happily; in the story of a Witch there is no afterword.
I guess if I was to have a daughter anytime soon the poor girl would end up with the name Aelphaba ;D
Boys study, girls know,
That´s the way that lessons go.
(oh how i love to tease my bf with that one ;-))
~~~~
She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that
because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she
signified and to whom, was not clear to her yet.
(well, simply know too many women it fits to...)
~~~~
Brightness as you know, decays brilliantly. Madness is the most
shining way...
(sad, but true?)
~~~~
Shard by shard she rearranges the world.
It looks the same, she says, but it is not.
It looks as they expect, but it is not.
'Beware whom you serve,' said the Wizard of Oz."
~~~~
I never use the word humanist or humanitarian, as it
seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most
heinos crimes in nature.
~~~~
If you suppress the idea of personhood then you supress the
notion of individual culpability (...) it´s a blind excuse for crime.
~~~~
Is it that the world unwraps itself to you, again and again,
as soon as you are ready to see it anew?
~~~~
He asked himself, again and again, if he was in love wit Elphaba (...) and if he knew what the words even meant; and if it mattered.
(just very cute i think...)
~~~~
One never learns how the witch became wicked, or wether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It
is at the very least a question of definitions.
~~~~
There were more ways to live than the ones given bye one's superiors.
~~~~
When the times are crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
~~~~
Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
~~~~
Who do we ever see but ourselves, and that's the curse...
~~~~
Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing - by dint of ignorance and innocence - that beneath this unbreakable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way. A more ancient precedent of ransom, that we may not always be tormented by our shame.
~~~~
'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you want?'
(...)
She couldn´t say forgiveness (...) and in the end what came out of her mouth surprised them both. She said, 'A soul-'
~~~~
And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no after, in the ever after of a Witch, there is no happily; in the story of a Witch there is no afterword.
