Danielle Paige Quotes & Sayings

I didn't know what was worse: to have your shot and screw it up, or to never have had a shot in the first place. — Danielle Paige

You're almost there already. Just imagine what you want to happen. And then concentrate on that, and only on that. The magic is everywhere. It's waiting for you to take it and make it your own. — Danielle Paige

Think about the first time you really fell in love. No, I mean, really think about it. How it was like your whole life before that moment was a black-and-white movie, and suddenly you stepped into Technicolor. — Danielle Paige

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 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

You shouldn't trust me. But you shouldn't trust anyone else here either. Every smile, every kind word - every cookie - it's all done with one goal. And that's a dead princess. — Danielle Paige

This is what a place like this does to you. It makes you put words in the beaks of chickens. — Danielle Paige

Jagger knew who I was, and I could actually tell him things that I could not say to Kai - or anyone else, really. — Danielle Paige

No matter what, you'll still be a witch." "But what kind?" I asked. "Good question, child," Gert said, slinking off into the dark. — Danielle Paige

It was like that old show This Is Your Life, except this version was called This Is Why You Suck. — Danielle Paige

No matter what the occasion, we must present the proper face to the world, — Danielle Paige

Sometimes only pain can heal. — Danielle Paige

Forgiveness can get you places, I guess. But sometimes you need to light a fire. — Danielle Paige

I don't know who you are. You hide your real faces from one another. How is that living? I don't want to hide my scars, I wish I didn't have magic and I'd rather dance with my feet on the ground! I don't want to live in a dream- I just want to live. Like a normal person. And I want to feel things for free. — Danielle Paige

He'd gone so long without a brain, and the thought of all that wasted time was nearly enough to make him cry - except, of course, that he couldn't. At least he was a king now. That was something. He was powerful. He was smart. And he was getting smarter by the minute. — Danielle Paige

...this boy I had known for less than a heartbeat, was the boy of my dreams. Only my dreams were nightmares. — Danielle Paige

That girl has more cracks in her than the road of yellow brick — Danielle Paige

You can't judge her now. She's doing the best that she can under the circumstances. — Danielle Paige

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

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

Oz has changed," Gert said. "The trees don't talk. The Pond of Truth tells lies, the wandering Water stays put. The Land of Naught is on fire. People are starting to get old. People are forgetting how it used tone. — Danielle Paige

You don't need wheels on your house to get somewhere better. All you need is something to give you that extra push. — Danielle Paige

Meet the new witch, same as the old bitch. We monkeys have dinged enough dongs to know. — Danielle Paige

I turned to face him, and when I saw him standing there in the pale, blue-gray sunlight, my breath caught somewhere beneath my ribs. The boy was probably my age, and about my height, too. — Danielle Paige

He wondered if it meant more to appear certain than to be right. — Danielle Paige

We're off to see the Wizard — Danielle Paige

He felt the power but it meant less to him somehow. — Danielle Paige

As my skin touched his, I saw his face, and I felt electricity shooting through my body. His eyes were the first thing I noticed: They were emerald green with flecks of something I couldn't even describe to myself, and they seemed to be glowing, almost floating in front of his face. There was something about them that seemed almost alien. Was — Danielle Paige

I hate to break it to you, but just because someone has pretty hair and a good skin tone and a crown instead of a pointy hat doesn't mean she's not the baddest bitch this side of the emerald city. — Danielle Paige

The monkeys ignored him completely as they discussed wind currents and angle of approach, and even the Lion seemed to have forgotten he was there. He might as well be back in that field tied to a post for all the good the Wizard's gifts were doing him. — Danielle Paige

Well, if one's going to daydream, one might as well make it a good one, don't you suppose? — Danielle Paige

You're afraid to do anything but wish for things to happen to you — Danielle Paige

Magic is just energy that wants to be something different — Danielle Paige

What had I done to make them think I was a potential teen girl assassin? — Danielle Paige

Stockholm syndrome, — Danielle Paige

He was beautiful. He was too beautiful. It was the kind of beautiful that can almost seem ugly; the kind of beautiful you don't want to touch, because you know it might burn. I wasn't used to talking to people who looked like him. I wasn't used to being near people who looked like him. But he had saved my life. — Danielle Paige

What's underneath is everything. But that doesn't mean you can't enhance it. Beauty has its own kind of magic. And the appearance of something can have power too — Danielle Paige

The thing you'll never understand is that it doesn't matter how much information you put in your brain. It's about what you do with the information you have. — Danielle Paige

Salvation Amy from Flat Hill, Kansas. Just a trailer-park girl with a bunch of stupid dreams that would never come true. — Danielle Paige

The Wizard was from a place called America, and to him, a female ruler was a strange and unsettling notion. — Danielle Paige

It is possible with enough time and imagination to break your own heart. — Danielle Paige

With all the magic in Oz, with all the magic the witches had taught me, there was one trick I still hadn't mastered: how to make people stay. — Danielle Paige

I stifled a laugh, not sure which was funnier: the idea of me being a lady o him being a gentleman. — Danielle Paige

Power will always corrupt those who have not learned to serve it properly" -Lurline — Danielle Paige

Those who have sacrificed always have the most to lose. — Danielle Paige

It was like he had whole worlds behind his eyes. — Danielle Paige

Miracles are not the same as magic. — Danielle Paige

Magic always wants to be something different from what it already is. Now that made sense to me. It reminded me of myself. — Danielle Paige

Beautiful was in the way that she moved and spoke. Beautiful was an action as well as a description. — Danielle Paige

You don't have to promise me the moon or the stars, just promise me you will stand under them with me. — Danielle Paige

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

I didn't feel weaker, I felt changed. Like I really had become something else - a warrior like Jellia had been when she'd confronted Dorothy - someone capable of taking the worst these assholes had to offer and then dishing it right back to them. — Danielle Paige

You are not where you are from. — Danielle Paige

Of course, it was Iris who'd actually exposed the traitor. He could tell Lulu, but Iris was just a young hothead with no sense for politics. She wasn't suited for Quentin's position; really, he was doing her a favor, saving her from future embarrassment when she couldn't handle the responsibility. And if defeating Quentin had been his test, surely this was his reward. He could always award Iris an extra banana allowance once he was officially made chancellor - he wasn't heartless. Hex bowed politely. "Your Majesty, I'm honored. I'll certainly consider your offer." She nodded and tossed the banana peel over her shoulder; a guard hurried forward to catch it. "Now," she said, "I must attend to my people." With that, she swept out the door, a scatter of rhinestones sparkling in her wake and the guard trailing behind her. — Danielle Paige

Never underestimate a girl from Kansas, — Danielle Paige

My name is Amy Gumm - and I'm the other girl from Kansas. I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked. I've been trained to fight. And I have a mission: Remove the Tin Woodman's heart. Steal the Scarecrow's brain. Take the Lion's courage. And - Dorothy must die. — Danielle Paige

The usual question... GOOD or WICKED? — Danielle Paige

The world I grew up in is gone, too," I said quietly. "But that doesn't mean I'm going to give up on it. Because if you give up - then what is there left to live for? — Danielle Paige

Smell us?" I asked, genuinely confused. "What is she, a hunting dog? — Danielle Paige

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

I shivered. The story was true. The Wizard of Oz had been real. Dorothy Gale had really been swept up by a tornado and brought to the Land of Oz. True, what I was living now didn't seem like the kind of storybook tale I was used to. But it didn't mean they didn't exist. — Danielle Paige

I held Star close before I departed. "If I don't come back," I told her, "find a way to give everyone the plague. — Danielle Paige

You name drop authors like other girls drop boy bands. — Danielle Paige

You are not crazy, Snow. You were just lied to. You are not evil. You have magic. It's not a curse. It's a gift. I may be a liar, but I this much is true. — Danielle Paige

Madison sparkled like the words on her oversized chest. There was glitter embedded in her eye shadow, in her lip gloss, in her nail polish, hanging from her ears in shoulder grazing hoops, dangling from her wrists in blingy bracelets. If the lights went out in the hallway, she could light it up like a human disco ball. — Danielle Paige

Down is up, up is down. Good is Wicked, Wicked is Good. The times are changing. This is what Oz has come to. — Danielle Paige

Sometimes I wonder if it's even Dorothy's fault., or if this place was just rotten from the start, underneath everything. If maybe that's the price you pay for magic. — Danielle Paige

If I wanted a load of baloney, I would've had a cold cut platter brought it!" -Lulu — Danielle Paige

You say wicked like it's a good thing. — Danielle Paige

And maybe, just maybe, it didn't matter hw you looked going into battle. It just mattered that you went. — Danielle Paige

For everything that's wonderful, there's something wicked, too. That's the price you pay for magic. It's worth it, I thought. — Danielle Paige

If I was going down, I was going down fighting — Danielle Paige

sleep felt as far away as home — Danielle Paige

It's a Magril - a bird that's native to Gillikin Country. It spends half its life as a beetle, and when it's an adult, it goes to sleep for a year and wakes up as this majestic creature."
"Kind of like a butterfly."
"Kind of like you," he said. — Danielle Paige

It was the worst kind of sad, too - the kind where you're sad about something that you know will never change. The kind of sad you can't even bother getting angry about anymore. — Danielle Paige

To use it," she went on, "you just need to know how to find it. You need to gather it up and tell it what to do. It's just unstable energy. Magic always wants to be something different from what it already is. It wants to change. That's what makes it magic. And that's what makes lighting a candle the simplest bit of magic you can do. You just take the energy, and you tell it what to be. — Danielle Paige

I turned back. Just put one foot in front of the other. Nothing had changed except the color of the road. — Danielle Paige

Be brave. Be angry. Don't trust anyone. — Danielle Paige

Good and evil were always changing places with each other — Danielle Paige

It's funny how quickly you adjust to insanity. — Danielle Paige

And remember as in all of us, it is only your capacity for wickedness that makes selflessness possible. — Danielle Paige

For The Crime of Sass. This Monkey Is Hereby Sentenced To Official Attitude Adjustment. — Danielle Paige

You don't know Dorothy. The more she gets, the more she wants. That's the way it is with you people, — Danielle Paige

The more you see of evil, the more evil seems limitless. I guess the same goes for good, but I haven't seen as much of that. — Danielle Paige

My real wizardry has nothing to do with spells at all. It has to do with knowledge. — Danielle Paige

Remember - don't be wicked. Unless you really have to!" Parting — Danielle Paige

Plus, he was bald as an egg. But I felt bad for him. It wasn't his fault that his mom was the biggest bitch in Kansas - well, second biggest, now that I was back. — Danielle Paige

In Oz, it's always right now. — Danielle Paige

You can decide what kind of magic you practice. Just like you can decide who you are. In the end, it's really the same thing. — Danielle Paige

I kept my antennae up for intel, but the only subject of conversation was Dorothy. Which should have been a good thing, considering that she was the one I was really here to learn about. Unfortunately, no one was sharing any useful information. It was all about how beautiful Dorothy was, or how kind she was, or how lucky we were to be working for the greatest person in all of Oz. It was weird. They were like a creepy, overeager maid sorority. — Danielle Paige

Oz- where all your worst nightmares come true — Danielle Paige

It was a scream, but it was also something like a song, too. It was like all the pain and sorrow in the world was being dredged up from the bottom of the earth and was twisting itself into a horrible, tortured melody. — Danielle Paige

Once you've traveled to the dark side of the rainbow, you've reached the end of the line. If — Danielle Paige

I knew, on some level, that what I was seeing was the real Oz. I had pulled back the curtain and stepped through it, but instead of finding a humbug wizard, I'd found the controls to the whole operation - and it turned out the whole operation was made out of what appeared to be magical silly string. — Danielle Paige

We all know that broad's about six stamps short of first class these days. — Danielle Paige

I had gotten exactly what I had wanted, and still it wasn't enough. I had wanted. And now I wanted more. — Danielle Paige

Okay, so I was crying, too. Only a little bit. Even a wicked witch like me has a heart, you know? — Danielle Paige

Sometimes it's not the thing you want. It's the promise of the thing you want... I want you to think about me and nothing else for just a second. And in that second, I'll rob you blind. — Danielle Paige

We breathe out lies; we stutter the truth — Danielle Paige

And then I thought: Bring it on. There's no place like anywhere but here. — Danielle Paige