Much later, Alice would wonder what might have happened if she had gone to bed when she was supposed to.

Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?

Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?

Books age, they yellow, the pages dry and crackle and tear. Who can tell what tiny defect will change simple paper and ink into true meaning?

No one can be managed or led, people are inspired and cared for.

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.

Presents, I often say, endear absents.

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.

It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you.

There are clothes which keep rejuvenating themselves instead of getting worn out.

Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on him?