Day 115 - Words (by mintytrina)
Showing posts tagged alice
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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
One of my greatest wishes is that Chris Riddell fully illustrate an Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. He’s one of my favourite all-time illustrators and I think he’s magnificent.
(Source: thegoblinbattle)
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(Reblogged from rainy-corners)
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where—” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
“—so long as I get SOMEWHERE,” Alice added as an explanation.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where—” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
“—so long as I get SOMEWHERE,” Alice added as an explanation.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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(Reblogged from quote-book)
The time has come; the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax
Of cabbages and kings
And why the sea is boiling hot
And whether pigs have wings.
To talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax
Of cabbages and kings
And why the sea is boiling hot
And whether pigs have wings.
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872
(Source: quote-book)
