There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other.

Oh! I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other; and, therefore, you must give me a plain, direct answer.

I like adventures, and I’m going to find some; I’m tired of being told that girls mustn’t run and climb and laugh out loud, as if joy were a crime, when all I want is to use the strength I have, and see where it will take me, and make something worth the trouble of being alive.

No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart, and he had no one to comfort him.

If everybody minded their own business,” the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, “the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and, if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still; … whatever your faults, they were not invented: I would not have a part of you altered, any more than I would have a single feature changed in my face.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.