Meta-Essence is the life-force of Wonderland. That of your enemies is especially potent. Collect what you can. Use it wisely.

Is our situation not dismal? Wonderland is so discombobulated that lady bugs have turned belligerent and enlisted in the queen's army! Punish their conversion!

I'm afraid I have to expel a rather ferocious hairball. You're on your own, girl.

The proper order of things is often a mystery to me. You, too?

I've never trusted toadstools, but I suppose some must have their good points.

That was rude, you *are*! Rabbit knows a thing or two and I myself, don't need a weathervane to tell which way the wind blows.

Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run.