Looking Glass Quotes

“The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said "Talk, child."
Alice could not help her lips curling up into a smile as she began: "Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"
"Well, now that we have seen each other," said the Unicorn, "If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Looking Glass

“The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.”
― David Fairchild, The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer

“When you think everything is someone else’s fault, chances are that you’re looking at the wrong side of the looking glass.”
― Jennifer Megan Varnadore

“To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“A face stared up at her from the mirror beside her hand. Was that really what she looked like? Was that really what she looked like, all sharp lines and huge silver-grey eyes? Certainly, no one would ever call those features beautiful, Jame thought ruefully; but were they really enough like a boy's to have fooled that old man the alley? Well, maybe with that long black hair out of sight under a cap. It was a very young face and a defiant one, she thought with a odd sense of detachment, but frightened, too. And those extraordinary eyes... what memories lived in them that she could not share? Stranger, where have you been she asked silently. What have you seen? The thin lips locked in their secrets.

"Ahhh!" Jame said in sudden disgust, tossing away the mirror. Fool, to be obsessed with a past she couldn't even remember. But it was all behind her now.”
― P.C. Hodgell, God Stalk

“She ran, and leaned to the wall, until her face was close to mine and her breath came on me.

I said, 'I'll do it. I'll go with you. I love you, and I cannot give you up. Only tell me what I must do and I will do it!'

Then I saw her eye, and it was black, and my own face swam in it, pale as a pearl. And then, it was like Pa and the looking-glass. My soul left me - I felt it fly from me and lodge in her.

”
― Sarah Waters, Affinity

“You can set up housekeeping on one side of the looking glass or the other--the side that makes big things small or small things big.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

“You can't go through the looking-glass without cutting yourself.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“The Lucky Looking Glass by Stewart Stafford

Woken from a nightmare,
He walked to his bathroom,
Treading on a hand mirror,
Breaking it, to his horror.

Payback of a reflection dodged,
With a lifespan of scars healed,
Dark energies bilaterally wiped,
A poisonous duo counterbalanced.

From then on, Plutus's grin shone,
A Midas touch with an off switch,
Winning streaks of a Texan width,
Cracked mirror coffin for the next life.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford