William Morrow

Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
—Eric Hoffer

How there was nothing in this world, no movie, no amount of love that could keep her daughter safe. How Zola threatened her mother with every breath she took by being alive, being here. By being something to take away.