{"quotes":[{"text":"She was the most beautiful, terrible thing he'd ever seen, like an acetylene flame, an incandescent filament, a fallen star right in front of him.","author":"Lev Grossman","tags":["alice","beauty","flame","light","love","she","star","terror"],"id":7915,"author_id":"Lev+Grossman"},{"text":"Everyone knows: people who cross boarders do so for a reason.","author":"M.D. Elster","tags":["alice","alice-in-wonderland","crossing-borders","dark-fantasy","everyone-knows","fairy-tale-retellings","fantasy","insane","insanity","leaving","madness","people","reason","retelling","retellings"],"id":8239,"author_id":"M.D.+Elster"},{"text":"The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.","author":"David Fairchild","tags":["alice","alice-in-wonderland","carroll","lewis-carroll","looking-glass","microscope","mind","recognition","science","ships","thrilling"],"id":58337,"author_id":"David+Fairchild"},{"text":"Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!","author":"Lewis Carroll","tags":["alice","alice-in-wonderland","french","humor","lewis-carroll","remember"],"id":65574,"author_id":"Lewis+Carroll"},{"text":"Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Nothing's impossible!","author":"Lewis Carroll","tags":["alice","alice-in-wonderland","door","funny","humor","wordplay"],"id":91431,"author_id":"Lewis+Carroll"},{"text":"She didn't think she could be a Christian if perfection was required.","author":"Kellyn Roth","tags":["alice","christian","christianity","historical","perfection"],"id":96562,"author_id":"Kellyn+Roth"},{"text":"We're all vulnerable. Mix the wrong feelings together, the right kind of bad with the wrong kind of good, and you'll wind up with a total breakdown.","author":"Caterpillar from Alice","tags":["alice","caterpillar","feelings","vulnerable"],"id":96664,"author_id":"Caterpillar+from+Alice"},{"text":"The hinder portion scalding-house good eating Curve B in addition to the usual baths and ablutions military police sumptuousness of the washhouse risking misstatements kept distances iris to iris queen of holes damp, hairy legs note of anger chanting and shouting konk sense of 'mold' on the 'muff' sense of 'talk' on the 'surface' konk2 all sorts of chemical girl who delivered the letter give it a bone plummy bare legs saturated in every belief and ignorance rational living private client bad bosom uncertain workmen mutton-tugger obedience to the rules of the logical system Lord Muck hot tears harmonica rascalthat's chaos can you produce chaos? Alice asked certainly I can produce chaos I said I produced chaos she regarded the chaos chaos is handsome and attractive she said and more durable than regret I said and more nourishing than regret she said.","author":"Donald Barthelme","tags":["alice","chaos"],"id":103399,"author_id":"Donald+Barthelme"},{"text":"Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?'The same thing you do when you don't have forever.' He smiled wanly. 'Live.","author":"Amanda Hocking","tags":["alice","ezra","forever","inspirational","my-blood-approves","vampires","wisdom"],"id":127800,"author_id":"Amanda+Hocking"},{"text":"A vampire is branding girls, okay?' I ignored his refusal. 'Something about that just feels wrong to me.'I would hope so.","author":"Amanda Hocking","tags":["alice","branded-vampires","jack","my-blood-approves","wisdom"],"id":134959,"author_id":"Amanda+Hocking"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}