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1 " If you go chasing your freedom your fate will only follow you there and force you back. "
― Christina Henry , Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)
2 " You’re thinking. That’s good. Not just a pretty face, then. "
3 " Just because I’m mad doesn’t mean I’m not right. "
4 " You’re only a mouse if you let them make you one. "
5 " There was comfort in ignorance, in thinking the world a certain way and not knowing any different. "
6 " It made Alice realize how much of life was full of empty stuff, objects longed for because the hope of them made your small life seem bigger, better, brighter. "
7 " She must start believing in impossible things, for impossible things kept appearing before her eyes. "
8 " She would never comprehend the need to hurt those who never hurt her, the need to hate for the sake of hating. She never wanted to rule over others in fear. No, she would never understand the Jabberwocky. "
9 " He was haunted, same as she was, except he didn’t know the name of his ghost. "
10 " There is more to you than you know. Remember that. "
11 " That was the trouble with not being right in the head. You couldn’t always tell if your eyes were telling the truth. "
12 " Interesting' meant that you attracted the notice of men who would hurt you to possess whatever they found 'interesting' about you. "
13 " If you let the grief in, it might consume you. "
14 " Alice remembered who she was before. She just couldn’t recall what had happened to that girl to make her this girl. "
15 " You mean murder and eat," Alice said."No, I mean eat and murder," the rat said. "I'd rather it the other way around, wouldn't you?""I'd rather it not all all," Alice said. "
16 " can’t save everybody. But we can save somebody. "
17 " How could I ever love you properly with a wall between us for all time? "
18 " Things that are worth nothing are easy to come by. "
19 " In the Old City there were very few ways for women to stay alive, and all of them involved a man. "
20 " She knew what he offered. He would kill her first, with the gun or the knife or his fists if he had to, and make certain she was never trapped in that cage again. From another man this might be terrifying, that he would so blithely consider murdering his companion. But she understood that from Hatcher this was tantamount to an offer of marriage. This was what he could do for her, how he showed he cared. "
