“Bad boys needed love too. Her boys weren't dangerous- just naughty. But naughty could be very, very fun.”
“Everything has beauty," she said, "but not everyone sees it." Her stomach hurt, her eyes burned. "I saw you, Hatter." Her words whispered through the night. "I saw you." She walked away.”
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
“He looked like an angel.
But only the fallen would make her feel the sudden violent lust rushing through her veins.”
“Of course that stupid fat cow- oh what was her face, the one who worked with Cinderella- thought she was the best. But honestly, what was her claim to fame? Turning a pumpkin into a coach? Or, how about making mice footmen? Preposterous. She was a disgrace to all the fairy godmothers out there with her ridiculous bippity-boppity-booing.”
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
“Wonderland was wonderful, but without a counterbalance, it could turn it's inhabitants completely insane. ”
“He means none of what he says and only half of what he doesn’t.”
“So the Wolf had killed a time or two. Big deal. He was a wolf! What did they expect? That he’d lick his balls all day and howl at the moon?”
“Hatter was dressed in his outlandish clothes again and her heart beamed with pride. “You know,” she said, “you’re all sorts of perfect.” He smiled, but she saw pleasure in his eyes.”
“Bad boys needed love too. Her boys weren’t dangerous— just naughty. But naughty could be very, very fun.”
“Cinderella- thought she was the best. But honestly, what was her claim to fame? Turning a pumpkin into a coach? Or, how about making mice footmen? Preposterous. She was a disgrace to all the fairy godmothers out there with her ridiculous bippity-boppity-booing.”
“To vilify a man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness,”
“The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.”
“I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And then there is the question on which so much depends, of how we react to the damage: whether we admit it or repress it,and how this affects our dealings with others.Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it;some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and there are those whose main concern is to avoid further damage to themselves, at whatever cost. And those are the ones who are ruthless, and the ones to be careful of.”
“Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.”
“There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.”
“you look at me and cry
everything hurts
i hold you and whisper
but everything can heal”
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