• That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

    Gregory Maguire: That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.
    Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.230, Hachette UK