Author: Lewis Carroll

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• NULL (1)
  • IN: Sylvie and Bruno (1895) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the goldern gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream? Bowed to the earth with bitter woe Or laughing at some raree-show We flutter idly to and fro. Man's little Day in haste we spend, And, from its merry noontide, send No glance to meet the silent end.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: A Tangled Tale (1885) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Goblin, lead them up and down."
    FROM: Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK

Cited by

• Evelyn Waugh (1)
  • IN: Vile Bodies (1930) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ;Well, in our country,' said Alice, still panting a little, you’d generally get to somewhere else -- if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.' 'A slow sort of country!' said the Queen. 'Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!' If I wasn't real,' Alice said -- half laughing through her tears, it all seemd so ridiculous -- 'I shouldn't be able to cry.' 'I hope you don't suppose those are real tears?' Tweedledum interrupted in a tone of great contempt.
    FROM: Through the Looking Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Jodi Picoult (1)
  • IN: Change of Heart (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' / I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.""
    FROM: Through the Looking-Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Angus Wilson (1)
  • IN: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "What curious attitudes he goes into!" "Not at all," said the King, "He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger -- and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes. He only does them when he's happy."
    FROM: Through the Looking-Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Eleanor & Lee, Madeleine Wong (1)
  • IN: y grec (2005) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: ...said the Mock Turtle: "why, if a fish came to me, and told me he was going [on] a journey, I would say 'With what porpoise?'" "Don't you mean 'purpose'?" said Alice. "I mean what I say," the Mock Turtle replied in an offended tone. And the Gryphon added, "Come, Let's hear some of your adventures."
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• John le Carré (1)
  • IN: The Looking Glass War (1965) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join.
    FROM: Through the Looking Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Alan Hollinghurst (1)
  • IN: The Line of Beauty (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "What do you know about this business?" the King said to Alice. "Nothing," said Alice. "Nothing whatever?" persisted the King. "Nothing whatever," said Alice. "That's very important," the King said, turning to the jury. They were just beginning to write this down on their slates, when the White Rabbit interrupted: "Unimportant, your Majesty means, of course," he said in a very respectful tone, but frowning and making faces at him as he spoke. "Unimportant, of course, I meant," the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, "important--unimportant--unimportant--important" as if he were trying which word sounded best.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Neel Mukherjee (1)
  • IN: The Lives of Others (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• David Baldacci (1)
  • IN: The Finisher (2014) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Josin L. McQuein (1)
  • IN: Premeditated (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die.
    FROM: A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky, (1871), Poem, UK
• Colleen Oakes (2)
  • IN: Queen of Hearts (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "How do you like the Queen?" said the Cat in a low voice. "Not at all," said Alice: "she's so extremely --" Just then she noticed that the Queen was close behind her, listening; so she went on, "-- likely to win, that it's hardly worth while finishing the game."
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
  • IN: Blood of Wonderland (2017) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Doris Lessing (1)
  • IN: A Proper Marriage (1964) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "You shouldn't make jokes," Alice said, "if it makes you so unhappy."
    FROM: Through the Looking-Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Maggie Stiefvater (1)
  • IN: Sinner (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end?
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Cecelia Ahern (1)
  • IN: The Time of my Life (2011) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: You used to be much more... "muchier". You've lost your muchness.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Hayley Long (1)
  • IN: Downside Up (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Cyn Balog (1)
  • IN: Touched (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "That's the effect of living backwards," the Queen said kindly: "It always makes one a little giddy at first--" "Living backwards!" Alice repeated in great astonishment. "I never heard of such a thing!" "--But there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways." "I'm sure mine only works one way," Alice remarked. "I can't remember things before they happen." "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked.
    FROM: Through the Looking Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Sophie Barnes (1)
  • IN: The Danger in Tempting an Earl at the Kingsborough Ball (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Though time be fleet and I and thou are half a life asunder, thy loving smile will surely hail the love-gift of a fairy tale.
    FROM: Through the Looking-Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Toni Blake (2)
  • IN: All I Want is You (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end?
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
  • IN: All I Want Is You: A Coral Cove Novel (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end?
    FROM: Alice in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Alexandra Burt (2)
  • IN: Remember Mia (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir...because I'm not myself, you see.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
  • IN: Little Girl Gone (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir...because I'm not myself, you see.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• J.D, Robb Blayney, Mary, Fox, Elaine, Mccomas, Mary Kay and Langan, Ruth Ryan (1)
  • IN: Down the Rabbit Hole (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We're all mad here.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Alena Graedon (1)
  • IN: The Word Exchange (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be the master - that's all."
    FROM: Through the Looking Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Lawrence Block (1)
  • IN: A Diet of Treacle (1961) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Once upon a time there were three little sisters,” the Dormouse began in a great hurry; “and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well—” “What did they live on?” said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking. “They lived on treacle,” said the Dormouse. “They couldn’t have done that, you know,” Alice gently remarked. “They’d have been ill.” “So they were,” said the Dormouse. “Very ill.”
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Peter Robinson (1)
  • IN: When the Music's Over (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
    FROM: Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, (1871), Novel, UK
• Jeffery Deaver (1)
  • IN: Mistress of Justice (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let the jury consider their verdict," the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. "No, no," said the Queen. "Sentence first – verdict afterwards."
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Neal Pollack (1)
  • IN: Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You are old, Father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Kate Atkinson (1)
  • IN: Emotionally Weird (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a thoughtful tone. 'When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.' 'Oh!' said Alice. She was much too puzzled to make any other remark. 'Ah, you should see 'em come round me of a Saturday night,' Humpty Dumpty went on, wagging his head gravely from side to side: 'For to get their wages, you know.
    FROM: Through the Looking-Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Mary Lou Kirwin (1)
  • IN: Death Overdue (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Nelson DeMille (1)
  • IN: Night Fall (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For this must ever be A secret, kept from all the rest, Between yourself and me.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• David Morrell (1)
  • IN: Fifth Profession (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “I don't understand you,” said Alice. “It's dreadfully confusing.” “That's the effect of living backwards,” the Queen said kindly. “It always makes one a little giddy at first.” “Living backwards!” Alice repeated in great astonishment. “I never heard of such a thing!” “But there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.” “I'm sure mine only works one way,” Alice remarked. “I can't remember things before they happen.” “It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward,” the Queen remarked.
    FROM: Through the Looking-Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Gregory Maguire (1)
  • IN: After Alice (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking : “ Dear, dear ! How queer everything is to-day ! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I ’m not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle !” And she began thinking over all the children she knew, that were of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of them. “I’m sure I ’m not Ada,” she said, “ for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn’t go in ringlets at all ; and I ’m sure I can ’t be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she knows such a very little ! Besides, she’s she, and I’m I, and—oh dear, how puzzling it all is !
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• J. R. Moehringer (1)
  • IN: Sutton (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.
    FROM: The Hunting of the Snark, (1876), Poem, UK
• Max Collins (1)
  • IN: Ask Not (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We’re all mad here
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Damien Angelica Waltens (1)
  • IN: Paper Tigers (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Sarai Walker (1)
  • IN: Dietland (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this; "for it might end, you know," said Alice to herself, "in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?"
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Nigel Williams (2)
  • IN: R. I. P. (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Knight looked surprise... "What does it matter where my body happens to be?" he said. "My mind goes on working all the same."
    FROM: Alice Through the Looking-Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
  • IN: R.I.P (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Knight looked surprised... 'What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.'
    FROM: Alice Through the Looking-Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Jacqueline Winspear (1)
  • IN: Among the Mad (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat. "We're all made here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Sam Savage (1)
  • IN: It Will End With Us (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked.
    FROM: Through the Looking-Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Nora Roberts (1)
  • IN: Private scandals (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The time has come," the Walrus said, "to talk of many things.""
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Sarah Pinborough (1)
  • IN: The Language of Dying (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Well, not that we have seen each other," said the Unicorn, "If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you."
    FROM: Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, (1871), Novel, UK
• Sena Jeter Naslund (1)
  • IN: The Fountain of St. James Court (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "I could tell you my adventures -- beginning from this morning," said Alice a little timidly: "but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Sonja Yoerg (1)
  • IN: All the Best People (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad? Alice: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Walter Lucius (1)
  • IN: Butterfly on the Storm (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get somewhere else -- if you ran very fast, for a long time, as we've been doing." "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."
    FROM: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, (1871), Novel, UK
• Brian Freeman (1)
  • IN: Bone House (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I'll be judge, I'll be jury,' said cunning old Fury: 'I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.'
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Jane Gardam (1)
  • IN: A Long Way from Verona (1971) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.
    FROM: Alice Through the Looking-Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Jamal Mahjoub (1)
  • IN: The Golden Scales (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale How cheerfully he seems to grin How neatly spreads his claws And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli (1)
  • IN: A Most Curious Murder (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are hald a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.
    FROM: Through the Looking Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Olivia Sudjic (1)
  • IN: Sympathy (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I wouldn't mind being a pawn, if only I might join.
    FROM: Through the Looking Glass, (1817), Novel, UK
• Lindsey Drager (1)
  • IN: The Lost Daughter Collective (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.
    FROM: Alice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Steve Alten (1)
  • IN: Vostok (2015) Science Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Horror fiction, Adventure fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is a place, like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Some say, to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter. Which, luckily, I am.”
    FROM: Alice in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Steve Cavanagh (1)
  • IN: The Defence (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Sentence first—verdict afterwards"
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Infante, G. Cabrera (1)
  • IN: Three Trapped Tigers (1965) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ...And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Leann Sweeney (1)
  • IN: The Cat, the Collector and the Killer (2016) Mystery Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You can't help that. We're all mad here.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• A. F. Brady (1)
  • IN: The Blind (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Rowan Coleman (1)
  • IN: The Summer of Impossible Things (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
    FROM: Through the Looking Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Lewis Caroll (1)
  • IN: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide. Ah, cruel Three! In such an hour, Beneath such dreamy weather, To beg a tale of breath too weak To stir the tiniest feather! Yet what can one poor voice avail Against three tongues together? Imperious Prima flashes forth Her edict ‘to begin it’— In gentler tone Secunda hopes ‘There will be nonsense in it!’— While Tertia interrupts the tale Not more than once a minute. Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through a land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast— And half believe it true. And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, “The rest next time—” “It is next time!” The happy voices cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland : Thus slowly, one by one, Its quaint events were hammered out— And now the tale is done, And home we steer, a merry crew, Beneath the setting sun. Alice! a childish story take, And with a gentle hand Lay it where Childhood’s dreams are twined In Memory’s mystic band, Like pilgrim’s withered wreath of flowers Plucked in a far-off land.
    FROM: Preface poem to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Poem, UK
• L. Sayers, Dorothy (1)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "and the moral of that is-- --' said the Duchess."
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Ethel Turner (3)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Transportation for life was the sentence it gave, And then to be fined forty pounds.
    FROM: The Hunting of the Snark, (1876), Poem, UK
• Dean Koontz (1)
  • IN: The Whispering Room (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them.
    FROM: Alice in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Karen Russell (1)
  • IN: Swamplandia! (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish that I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!"
    FROM: Through the Looking-Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Janette Turner Hospital (1)
  • IN: Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: 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.
    FROM: Alice in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Brian James (1)
  • IN: Life is but a Dream (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Is all our life, then, but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam ...
    FROM: Is Life But A Dream? from Sylvie and Bruno, (1889), Poem, UK
• Richard Kadrey (1)
  • IN: The Getaway God (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice: "only to-day I happen to have a headache."
    FROM: Through the Looking-Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• Sarah J. Harris (1)
  • IN: The Color of Bee Larkham's Murder (2018) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "I could tell you my adventures -- beginning from this morning," said Alice a little timidly: "but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• O. Henry (1)
  • IN: Cabbages and Kings (1904) Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things; Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, And cabbages and kings."
    FROM: The Walrus and the Carpenter (from through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872), (1872), Poem, NULL