Start of Darkness/Quotes

"There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or, if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman."

- The Tale of Despereaux

""There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said - no. But somehow we missed it.""

- Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

""One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether 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?""

- Oatsie Manglehand, Wicked

"All things truly wicked start from an innocence."

- Ernest Hemingway