You know our Alice. She plays hide-and-seek but sometimes forgets to ask someone to look for her.
What's the different between a shooting star and a falling house? One which is propitious grants delicious wishes, the other which is vicious squishes witches.
What did it say about the movement of time, about what was about to happen, that I could understand the hummingbird spin of human voices?
What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the more meaning there is but the less articulable. You live your life, and the olde...
Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them.
The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness... Women are weaker, but their weakness is full of cunning and an equally rigid moral certainty. Since their arena is smaller,...
The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.
People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.
One plus one equals both.
Marmalade has to make its own way in life, like the rest of us, she thought.
Listen, we’re all trapped in our own lives. You, me, everyone we’ve ever met.
I’m not slow. Well, you’re not hasty,
If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, it might be the best way to die.
I hate to be obvious, added the Scarecrow, but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.
I do not listen when anyone uses the word immoral, said the Wizard. In the young it is ridiculous, in the old it is sententious and reactionary and an early warning sign of apoplexy. In the middle-age...
Hello, this is I, and these are my arms and legs, which are useful, and this inconvenient hump is my sorrow, which is less than useful, but I've learned how to hump it around, so pay it no mind.
Everything changes you, and you change everything.
Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all...
But let me remember what I choose.