You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage. - L Frank Baum Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of the alluring sirens, the hungry ogresses, the savage she-beasts. Think of them and remember that somewhere, sometime, they've all been real. Mab gave them lessons . - Jim Butcher We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. - Orson Scott Card We're the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive. - Orson Scott Card I don't particularly want Kay to be a good person. I'm perfectly comfortable thinking about her as the wicked witch - Cynthia Hand Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead. - E Y Harburg I've always thought Prince Charming in 'Cinderell...

I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...' '...Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.' '...Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck. - John Connolly

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. (Act 4, Scene 1) - William Shakespeare Something wicked this way comes - William Shakespeare Guess what Jeff found in his cabin for me," Grete says, "another book by the Martian Chronicle guy." "Ray Bradburrow", Jeff says. Bradbury, I think. "Yeah, right, Something Wicked This Way Comes," Grete says, "It's good". She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book. It's good or it's bad, I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad - like a hot dog. - Gillian Flynn