"In her cell, Glinda woke with a start. The lumbago was more punishing than the incarceration, but a sense of spring had filtered all the way down the open canyon roof of Southstairs, and she caught a whiff of freshness, of arrogant possibility. Her glasses had broken a year ago. She didn’t need them anymore, not really. She knew who was turning the door handle of her cell. She called her name sleepily, and added, “You wicked thing. You’ve taken your own sweet time, of course."

"So if you care to find me, look to the Western sky. As someone told me lately, “Everyone deserves the chance to fly!” And if I’m flying solo, at least I’m flying free. To those who would ground me, take a message back from me: tell them how I am defying gravity! I’m flying high, defying gravity! And soon I’ll match them in renown."