Important Quotations Explained
1. “Who in the world am I?” Ah,
that's the great puzzle.
2. Lastly, she pictured to herself
how this same little sister of hers would, in the afterâ‘time, be
herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper
years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood; and how she would
gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright
and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream
of Wonderland of long ago; and how she would feel with all their
simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering
her own childâ‘life, and the happy summer days.
3. It's a great huge game of chess
that's being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all,
you know.
4. Of all the strange things that
Alice saw in her journey Through The Lookingâ‘Glass, this was the
one that she always remembered most clearly. Years afterward she
could bring the whole scene back again, as if it had been yesterday—the
mild blue eyes and kindly smile of the Knight—the setting sun gleaming
through his hair, and shining on his armour in a blaze of light
that quite dazzled her—the horse quietly moving about, with the
reins hanging loose on his neck, cropping the grass at her feet—and
the black shadows of the forest behind—all this she took in like a
picture, as, watching the strange pair, and listening, in a halfâ‘dream,
to the melancholy music of the song.
5. Life, what is it but a dream?
