The Looking Glass Wars Quotes

“I tell you to think black thoughts and you come up with that?!" the lieutenant had screamed. "Is a guinea pig bad? Do you consider a guinea pig the representation of all that is evil?"

Maybe... if it's an evil guinea pig.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“But I killed you,” Alyss said. “Did you?” Red turned to The Cat. “Why wasn’t I informed?”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“Off with their heads!”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“For most of the universe's inhabitants, life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“She didn't bother to understand it all; it was history--boring boring boring.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“I've finished running from you, Redd. It's time for you to run."
--Alyss”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“We're family," Alyss said.
Redd snorted. "Is that supposed to mean something?"
Family," Alyss said again, trying to convince herself more than Redd.
Don't talk to me about family! You were never disowned by your parents!"
I'd rather have been disowned by them then see them murdered.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“Do you know what they call themselves, all these people?"
Alyss shook her head. How could she know?
"Alyssians." Bibwit spelled it out.
Her heart gave a little jump. Alyssians? No, they ask too much of me. "I don't think I'm ready for all of this," she said.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“Redd shed caution like an outgrown skin.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“The black, hungry roses that Redd sent snaking towards the princess were easily squashed, the orbs and and unmanned, airborne blades of effortlessly waved off, and the spears of black energy (Alyss was flattered, her aunt borrowing this idea from her) pinned motionless to the air by Alyss's own white spears with no trouble.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“What am I to do with you?" Redd asked.
"M-maybe you could-" Jack began.
The Cat raised a paw. "I know."
"It was a rhetorical question, fools! You don't answer it! Since when do I need help making anyone suffer?”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“The queen is head. Long live the queen...me."
The platoon of renegade soldiers cheered. Redd kicked The Cat where he lay on the floor, tongue lolling in his mouth, the picture of death. "Get up! You still have seven more lives."
The Cat's eyes fluttered open.
Find Alyss and kill her."
With a wave of her hand, the looking glass was once again whole. The Cate jumped through, in prosuit of the only living Heart besides Redd.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“I'm stronger than you are, Redd.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?"
The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical question when she roared, "It's a construct!"
With a dismiissive swing of Redd's arm, Alyss and her army began to shimmer, the billon points of engery that formed them monentarily visible before exploding apart into nothing. Redd scoped the queendom with her imagination's eye. "Where are you, Alyss? Where is my dear little niece?”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“Lesson number 1b in Bibwit's carefully planned curriculum: For most of the universe's inhabitants, life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; it is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity- is heroic. To soldier through the days in a wake of failure is the corageous act of many. To rule benevolently, a queen should be able to enter into the feelings of those less fortunate than herself.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“You can’t imagine everything because you don’t know everything there is to imagine.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“But like many young men who grow up as privileged as Jack of Diamonds, he didn’t suspect his own ignorance.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“Even a future monarch doesn’t always want to do what she is supposed to do.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“The scars of war are not always visible.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“What’s the rush, little fellow?” asked Bibwit Harte. “What seems to be the trouble?” “You’re the little fellow!” Jack said. “Hmm, well…in the grand scheme of the cosmos, I am a little fellow. We’re all quite little, if you think about it that way. Good point, Jack.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“I tell you to think black thoughts and you come up with that!?” the lieutenant had screamed. “Is a guinea pig bad? Do you consider a guinea pig the representation of all that’s evil?” “Maybe…if it’s an evil guinea pig?”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars