Quotes from book
Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed, including logic .


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“You couldn't have it if you DID want it.”

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

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Lewis Carroll photo

“And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?”

Source: Through the Looking Glass

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Lewis Carroll photo
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“Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!”

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

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

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

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“Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

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“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.”

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

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“Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy tale.”

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

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Lewis Carroll photo

“Consider anything, only don’t cry!”

Source: Through the Looking-Glass

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Lewis Carroll photo
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