“I hope she’ll be a fool, that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
“Then who am I?” asked the little girl. “Alice,” said the Gryphon.
“All right,’ said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.”
“I’m really sorry for you, or I wouldn’t have come. It’s a miserable party.”
“I hope I never get that old, where I start to like things like that.”
“I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
“It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.”
“I’m not a paper doll. I’m real.”
“I can’t help what’s past. I know I did wrong, but it don’t make no difference to me now. ‘Cause I ain’t got nobody to go ahead of me and light the way.”
“He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced – or seemed to face – the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.”
“I hope you’re happy now that you’ve got a good look at me.” BETRAYAL BY FAMILY QUOTES
“You’re revolting,” said Harry Harry, you’re a goddamn angel.”
“I was so engrossed in thinking of myself last night that I forgot to wind Father’s watch”
“I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
“The best thing a girl can be in this world is a beautiful little fool.”
“I can’t help thinking that everything is alive somehow — chairs, bridges, and things, and underneath them the sky — and I’m sitting here on this windowsill watching them all. If they’re alive, then they have souls, and we’re all just part of one big soul. But I guess that doesn’t make sense.”
“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
“The only way to deal with fear of the darkness is to bring it to light.”
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
“I don’t give a damn about you now but it was a new experience for me and I felt a little dizzy for a while.”