Quote by L. Frank Baum

“Yet Dorothy felt a sort of joyous excitement in defying the storm,”

— L. Frank Baum

“She had the most beautiful green eyes he had ever seen. They sparkled like emeralds even across the space between them.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

“Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own…

— Baum

“She was Dorothy in the hurricane, all spun about and landing in a different world.”

— Jess Raven

“Her eyes were green, and they were warm and liquid with some kind of deep, dreamy satisfaction. There was sparkle, muted, like winking sunlight…

— Lee Child

“I’m Dorothy trying to get to the Emerald City. Only, someone forgot to paint the sidewalks yellow.”

— Carrie Lofty

“I now realize what Dorothy means in the final scene from The Wizard of Oz, when she says that if you have to look…

— Jodee Blanco

“We were the first human beings who would never see anythign for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed,…

— Gillian Flynn

“....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.”

— Holly Lynn Payne

“This must be what Dorothy felt like, I think. Maybe. If Dorothy was six scared teenagers and Oz was hell.”

— Courtney Summers

“When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree…

— L. Frank Baum

“One of my greatest obsessions is the lights of a city. Through my eyes there is nothing so delicious and rich and lovely.”

— K.B. Ezzell