“…for what after all is Youth and Beauty?”
“After you then, buddy. Youth before beauty”
“Captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give”
“Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark, that you always carry in your heart.”
“Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.”
“Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear yet...She was, after all, on her way to Shiz because she was smart. But there was more than one way to be smart.”