Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.