Alice Quotes
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"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
"Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!"
"I know - I'll play you for it,"Alice suggested. "Rock, paper, scissors."Jasper chuckled and Edward sighed."Why don't you just tell me who wins?"Edward said wryly.Alice beamed. "I do. Excellent."
"Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!"
"Don't look now, but that's my ex over there."Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now"as "there's no better time than now."I looked."Bad, Ali!"Another slap to my arm. "Bad, bad, bad Ali! Have you no self control?"
"Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?""The same thing you do when you don't have forever."He smiled wanly. "Live."
"Into the hole again, we hurried along our way, into a once-glorious garden now steeped in dark decay."
"I'm not afraid of her, or her creatures. Never was, really!"
"Mange-ridden to the core, he leads me through the fray. With the toss of a Jackbomb, I clear abominations from our way."
"They taunt me about the burning as if I were to blame, I clear them from my conscious with the eloquence of my blade."
"If it's my keen invention you'd like to destroy, I'll withstand your best shot; I've got the right toy."
"Everyone I love dies violently; unnaturally. I'm cursed! Why go on? I'll just hurt others."
"Save myself? From death, is that it? Is that why I've come here? I'm not afraid to die! At times I've welcomed death."
""Mushrooms, poppies, sugar and spice, all those things are very nice. When combined, the proper mixture makes a getting small elixir." Hm. I don't really like sweets."
"Promise only what you are prepared to deliver. I am destined to do battle with the Red Queen. The outcome is uncertain."
"How many times must I tell you? I only take tea with friends!"
"If ignorance is bliss, I must be ecstatic."
"Where does that smushy lay-about hang his hookah these days?"
"I enjoy the taste of mushrooms, but not the ones that bite back."
"I wish I were hallucinating. What a terrible choice: eat a toadstool or become food for insects!"
"[To the woman] Go to hell!"
"Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Nothing's impossible!"
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
"I know - I'll play you for it," Alice suggested. "Rock, paper, scissors."Jasper chuckled and Edward sighed."Why don't you just tell me who wins?" Edward said wryly.Alice beamed. "I do. Excellent."
"Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?""The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live."
"I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning."
"A vampire is branding girls, okay?" I ignored his refusal. "Something about that just feels wrong to me.""I would hope so."
"Are you just gonna stare at Jack or are we gonna go?" Milo asked, poking his head into the bedroom."
"Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impos"
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
"Don't look now, but that's my ex over there."Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now" as "there's no better time than now." I looked."Bad, Ali!" Another slap to my arm. "Bad, bad, bad Ali! Have you no self control?"
"When I said it aloud, it sounded terribly creepy, which is why I had said it aloud."
"Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
"The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally.'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge.'No, I was just wondering what you would say if I was a lesbian.''Come again?' said Lester. 'I'm having a hard time following this conversation."
"Do we have a hand mirror?' I asked from the kitchen doorway.'Never use one,' said Lester, examining the date on a carton of sour cream.'Naturally, you're a male. What you see is what you've got,' I said resentfully.'Huh?' said Lester."
"Everyone knows: people who cross boarders do so for a reason."
"When one finds oneself in the kind of strange, unsettling circumstances as I presently find myself, it is only natural, after all, to have a few, unusual, vivid dreams."
"She didn't think she could be a Christian if perfection was required."
"She was the most beautiful, terrible thing he'd ever seen, like an acetylene flame, an incandescent filament, a fallen star right in front of him."
"The hours wear on, while the surreal atmosphere of the asylum does not wear off."
"Have I..." I venture, terrified of the potential answer. "Have I gone mad?" "No, no, no." She says. "Okay, oui, peut-être, that depends. Maybe you have gone a little mad, and only for a little spell."
"If you go chasing your freedom your fate will only follow you there and force you back."
"The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass."
David Fairchild, The World Was My Garden: Travels Of A Plant Explorer
"Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere."
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
"If it doesn't sweat, jiggle, or pant, it's not alive."
"We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others."
"If you jotted down all of my ill-thought out comments, you could write a book entitled, Guide to Getting Punched in the Throat for Boneheads-Mad Hatter in "Death of the Mad Hatter" (Coming Soon!)"
"Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be."
"We're all vulnerable. Mix the wrong feelings together, the right kind of bad with the wrong kind of good, and you'll wind up with a total breakdown."
"She who saves a single soul, saves the universe."
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
"But you...I felt that you would not be used. Would not allow yourself to be used. You deserve the opportunity to make your own choices, to walk your own path. Indeed, I believe you will do so, regardless of what Ending, Geryon, or anyone else intends. You must do what you believe to be right."
"And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
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