"Alice: "I'll play you for it. Rock, paper, scissors."
Edward: "Why don't you just tell me who wins?"
Alice: 'I do. Excellent.'"
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"I have never seen anyone so prone to life threatening idiocy.

Alice Cullen"
— Stephenie Meyer

"Door: Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does."
— Lewis Carroll

"We're all mad here dear Alice."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"I have never seen anyone so prone to life-threatening idiocy!"
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. "
— Alice Walker

"It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr."
— Lewis Carroll

"What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant
gone."
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

"“Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.”"
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

"Once they change their minds- make a new decision, no matter how small- the whole future shifts."
— Stephenie Meyer

"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it."
— Alice Walker

"The best way to die is when your living"
— Alice Hoffman

"Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up and you quickly forget how it's done."
— Alice Hoffman The Ice Queen

"'And how do you know that you're mad?'

'To begin with,' said the cat, 'a dog's not mad. You grant that?'

'I suppose so,' said Alice.

'Well then,' the cat went on, 'you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tale when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.'"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tale when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.""
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

""Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big"
"
— Lisa Genova

"Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player."
— Alice Cooper

"Debt Chauffeur, that's my name for him now, wants to marry me. He asked me down on bended knee, and I would have been honored - except he wants us to live in London, and he wants me to live white. I crowed at that. I laughed so hard and not a tear came. He couldn't understand it. I don't often think on how white I look; it's always been a question of how colored I feel, and I feel plenty colored. He said that no one in London will know that I'm supposed to be colored. And I said I am colored, colored black, the way I talk, the way I cook, the way I do most everything, and he said but you don't have to be. "
— Alice Randall (The Wind Done Gone: A Novel)

"We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others."
— Deborah Smith (Alice at Heart)

"Simply impassable. Nothings impossible. "
— The Door : Alice and Wonderland

"There then occurred the first and only paranormal incident of my marriage. Charlie shifted in his sleep, opened his eyes, looked at me and, without preamble, said, “You have to forgive yourself for killing that boy.” . . . “For your own sake but for mine, too,” he was saying, and his voice was hoarse from sleep yet also certain and insistent. “If you don’t forgive yourself, you’re making that accident too important, you’re making him too important.” Charlie paused. “And I want to be the love of your life.” "
— Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife: A Novel)

"Resistance is the secret of joy!"
— Alice Walker

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. "
— Lewis Carroll

"I think she's having hysterics--maybe you should slap her!"
— Alice Cullen

"I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!""
— Lewis Carrol (Alice Through the Looking-Glass)

"I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--Of cabbages--and kings--And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
— Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There)