Alice Quotes

“The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

“We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.”
― Deborah Smith, Alice at Heart

“I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.”
― Joseph Delaney, The Spook's Mistake

“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

“A vampire is branding girls, okay?" I ignored his refusal. "Something about that just feels wrong to me."
"I would hope so.”
― Amanda Hocking, Wisdom

“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.”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Alice on the Outside

“Of course you're here, in my- sanctum sanctorum. You always have been. You always will be. You're the Nonsense in my head that mustn't be ignored. You're the piece of me that maddens everyone, my sister the most."
The Hatter gave her a tired smile and said nothing- which might have been the wisest thing he ever said.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Save their world. But... come back to mine."
"That's rather forward of you, Mr. Cat."
He grinned. But it wasn't just like the Cheshire Cat's smile. There was warmth in it, and even love.
"I'm not the single young lady who goes knocking on strange barristers' doors," he pointed out.
"Hmmph," Alice said, sniffing. "Excellent point.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“If it doesn't sweat, jiggle, or pant, it's not alive.”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, The Grooming of Alice

“But you can’t escape from shadows or pain. You only find new ones. It’s better, I think, not to try to escape them at all but to accept that they will be there, and to remember that good things happen, too, even if you can’t always see them.”
― Christina Henry, Looking Glass

“There then occurred the first and only paranormal incident of my marriage. Charlie shifted in his sleep, opened his eyes, looked at me and, without preamble, said, “You have to forgive yourself for killing that boy.” . . . “For your own sake but for mine, too,” he was saying, and his voice was hoarse from sleep yet also certain and insistent. “If you don’t forgive yourself, you’re making that accident too important, you’re making him too important.” Charlie paused. “And I want to be the love of your life.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, American Wife

“He was like a damaged bird. And they always die, she thought.”
― Sadie Jones

“Are you just gonna stare at Jack or are we gonna go?" Milo asked, poking his head into the bedroom.”
― Amanda Hocking, Wisdom

“it's only a dream”
― Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“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.”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, The Grooming of Alice

“Here are three things I know for sure:
1. When I was born, someone- I like to think it was my mother- wrapped me in a blue ball gown.
2. There is a color in this world that was named after a king's daughter, who always wore gowns that were made of exactly the same shade of blue. The stories about her make me wish sometimes I could have been friends with her; she smoked in public (at a time when women didn't), once jumped fully clothed into a swimming pool with the captain of a ship, often wore a boa constrictor around her neck, and another time shot at telegraph poles from a moving train.
3. My favorite story goes like this: once, on an island not far from here, there was a queen who climbed a tree waiting for her husband to return from a battle. She tied herself to a branch and vowed to remain there until he returned. She waited for so long that she slowly transformed into an orchid, which was an exact replica of the pattern on the blue gown she was wearing.
Here's one more thing that I know for sure is true.
On the day June told us she was going to hospital to bring you home, I was in the workshop pressing blue lady orchids. I've always loved them best because their centres are my favorite color: the color of the gown I was once wrapped in. The color of a king's wayward daughter favored. A color called Alice blue.”
― Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

“Love loves to love love. Nurse loves the new chemist. Constable 14A loves Mary Kelly . . . Jumbo, the elephant, loves Alice, the elephant . . . You love a certain person. And this person loves that other person because everybody loves somebody but God loves everbody.
(‘Cyclops’, ll. 1493–501)”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“In a dear little village
Remote and obscure
A beautiful maiden resided
As to whether or not
Her intentions were pure
Opinions were sharply divided
She loved to lie
Out 'neath the darkening sky
And allow the night breeze
To entrance her
She whispered her dreams
To the birds flying by
But seldom received any answer

Over the field and along the lane
Gentle Alice would love to stray
When it came to the end of the day
She would wander away
Unheeding
Dreaming her innocent dreams she strode
Quite unaffected by heat or cold
Frequently freckled or soaked with rain
Alice was out in the lane

Who she met there
Every day
Was a question
Answered by none
But she'd get there
And she'd stay there
'Til whatever she did
Was undoubtedly done
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Over the field and along the lane
Both her parents would call in vain
Sadly, sorrowfully, they'd complain
'Alice is at it again.'

Although that dear little village
Surrounded by trees
Had neither a school, nor a college
Gentle Alice acquired
From the birds and the bees
Some exceedingly practical knowledge
The curious secrets that nature revealed
She refused to allow to upset her
But she thought
When observing the beasts of the field
That things might have been organised better

Over the field and along the lane
Gentle Alice would make up
And take up
Her stand
The road was not exactly arterial
But it led to a town nearby
Where quite a lot of masculine material
Caught her rolling eye
She was ready to hitchhike
Cadillac or motorbike
She wasn't proud or choosy
All she
Was aiming to be
Was a pinked-up
Minked-up
Fly-by-night floozy

When old Rogers
Gave her pearls as large as
Nuts on a chestnut tree
All she'd say was
'Fiddle-di-dee!
The wages of sin will be the death of me!'

Over the field and along the lane
Gentle Alice's parents
Would wait
Hand in hand
Her dear old white-headed mother
Wistfully sipping champagne
Said 'We've spoiled our child
Spared the rod
Open up the caviar and say "Thank God!"
We've got no cause to complain!
Alice is at it again!”
― Noël Coward, Alice Is at It Again Sheet Music

“Okuduğum masallarda anlatılanların hiçbir zaman gerçekleşmeyeceğini düşünürdüm, ancak şimdi bir masalın tam ortasındayım.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“She grabbed the bottle from the Knave's hand and without a word of apology or excuse tossed the entire contents back. It burned in a cardamomy, cinnamony, peony sort of way.
"Surely this will do something," she thought. "It feels strong!"
"I say," the Knave said, a little dismayed that his quaff had been quorffed.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“Because, of course, the real world needs some Nonsense, sometimes," Alice had said to Katz at the Samovar, when originally revealing her plan. "Not all the time and not never. Just enough to remind us when real things things get too ridiculous to be borne. And sometimes we have to create that Nonsense ourselves."
What the real world needs is an Alice," Katz had said back to her. "And Wonderland, too."
That was the first time he had kissed her.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“labels are for gifts under the tree, not for those who are sexually free”
― Rocky Flinstone

“Careful ma'am. Talk like that leads to the dungeon for being a traitor to the crown."

"I am the crown! Is my father already gone?"

"Aye. He left not twenty minutes ago." The server replied.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Sugar Plum Princess

“Alice." I sighed. She glared at me. Could I truly trust this girl? "I didn't know if I could trust you. The throne will be yours, you know."

"I don't want the throne! It's so much work and pressure. I just want to be free to lead my own life."

"Then, let's try and warn Peter.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Sugar Plum Princess

“I live with the feeling that the rabbit from "Alice in Wonderland" is always rushing me.”
― Artha Moreton

“His family sat at home mourning him, and you sat here sipping tea—

- Alice”
― Bethany Anne Lovejoy, Alice in the Land of Clovers

“I appreciate this. All of this. I will always remember it, and you.

- Alice”
― Bethany Anne Lovejoy, Alice in the Land of Clovers

“Fitz, I had a family. I had a sarcastic, well-meaning mother and I had a thoughtful, caring sister. I had a life, Fitz, and goals. I wanted to go to Oxford, I wanted to be someone, I wanted to become a professor! I wanted to write books and see the world!

- Alice”
― Bethany Anne Lovejoy, Alice in the Land of Clovers

“I wanted to fall in love, real love, and have a husband who loved me back some day, who didn't want me for some crown or ambition—And now you have trapped me here.

- Alice”
― Bethany Anne Lovejoy, Alice in the Land of Clovers