Emerald city Quote by L. Frank Baum

“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

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

— Courtney Summers

“...I'd been caught up in some wild cyclone, like Dorothy throw into Oz, with not a good witch in sight to save me.”

— Sarah Dessen

“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

“Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" cried Dorothy, clasping her hands together in dismay. "The house must have fallen on her. Whatever shall we do?”

— L. Frank Baum

“No, I am Dorothy now.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“you do not I will make an end of you, as I did of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow." Dorothy followed her through…

— L. Frank Baum

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

— Jess Raven

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

— L. Frank Baum

Dorothy tries to sum it all up before leaving Oz. "It's that if ever I go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't…

— Joey Green

“Katherine -I wondered if this was how Dorothy felt when she woke up in Oz with all the little people squawking ding dong, the…

— Lorraine Beaumont

“Don't fasten on Dorothy. Only unanswerable longing lies down that road. Gone is gone.”

— Gregory Maguire