Wicked Series by Gregory Maguire

***Wicked***

“Tis very strange men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.” –Daniel Defoe, A System of Magick
  
“How deeply bound by the cords of family anger we all are. None of us breaks free.” 

***Son of a Witch***

"Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history."
   
"We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of burning neuroses acting ourselves wicked. And nothing to be done about it. And nothing to be done about it." Fav

   
"We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we're lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out."

   

"She was nuts as a nut tree in a nut forest, of course: that was what he had thought without realizing he was thinking anything at all."
   
"She had had lots of power, in her own way, but she had no more motherly instinct than a berserk rhino."
   
"A hundred ways to duck the question: how will I live with myself now that I know what I know?"
   
"Make way, make way; hail hail, the prince of ale."
   
"'Few hungry farmers are willing to extend Birds that courtesy, so those of us who talk tend to congregate in areas less frequented by human scum. My apologies, that was crude of me.'

'Don't apologize too fast, you don't know me very well.'"