Impossible is my specialty.

Mind my words, Cheshire, I will have you banished from this kingdom if you tempt me.""An empty threat from an empty girl."She rounded on him, teeth flashing. "I am not empty. I am full to the brim with murder and revenge. I am overflowing and I do not think you wish for me to overflow on to you.""There was a time" – Cheshire yawned – "when you overflowed with whimsy and icing sugar. I liked that Catherine better.

Is that . . . has it all been for that? The tea party, the letters, what you said at the festival . . . all of it, no more than an attempt to steal my heart so you could take it back to your queen?’‘The easiest way to steal something,’ Jest murmured, ‘is for it to be given willingly.

Everyone always underestimates the idiot.

Some say it is better to have eaten and lost than never to have eaten at all.

To be all right implies an impossible phase. We hope for mostly right on the best of our days.

A beating heart was skewered on its tip. It was broken, cut almost clean in half by a blackened fissure that was filled with dust and ash.

These things do not happen in dreams, dear girl,' he said, vanishing up to his neck. 'They happen only in nightmares.'His head spiralled and he was gone.

A happy king makes for a happy kingdom.