Quotes from Frank Beddor

Here kitty, kitty. Here, kitty, kitty, kitty. --Dodge

THe Gnobi, when not roused to violence, were a sluggish clan, the least nomadic of Boarderland's tribes. Not sensing any immediate threat to their freedoms in the person of Jack Diamond, they had responded to his urgency with characteristic listessness. Myrval's tent is somewhere that way, one of them had said with a vauge wave of the hand. Follow the sound of the snoring and you'll find it, another had suggested.

Homburg Molly is my daughter, Homburg Molly is my daughter.

It's didn't take a genis tactician to see that failure was imminent, Alyss more powerful that Arch had supposed. He would have to focus on his contingency plan and let the Glass Eyes attack on Wonderland fizzle out--a circunstance mildly disapointing, but not worrisome. Such a strategist was the king that he had a contingency plan for his contingency plan, and even, if circunstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.

I am more powerful than that disgustingly well-intenioned niece of mine! --Redd Heart

Are you Lewis Carroll? Redd asked him.

What do you want to do with me? she asked. You had an unpleasant tumble. He nodded toward the unfamiliar creatures. My Ganmede friends and I are nursing you back to health, that's all. By drugging me? (Molly and Arch)

Hatter, my love, we never got a chance to say good-bye. --Weaver

How's our young guest? he asked. As docile as any child could be, wearing a drug-delivery system as she is, said one of the ministers. She constantly demands to see her mother, said another, and somewhat less constantly demands that we return her homburg to her.

If wearing this rag will in any way speed the process of gathering my furture soldiers, then I will waer it. But if it doesn't... Vollrath bowed. I will subject myself to your temper. You'll have no choice.

You say halfer as if it's a terrible thing, he said. But everyone I've ever known has been a halfer; if old enough t-to be called an adult, then ch-childish in their prejudices. All of us in the world really, I take to be h-halfers- half human, half divine, halfers of the best sort. I'd think the s-same must be true for the people of Wonderland, that there's...there is no such thing as s-someone who is not a halfer, or even a quarter-er, if you'll allow me the inelegant term.

It is sometimes braver to run. She who runs from her enemies until she has the strength to do otherwise is both brave and wise.

You see, I'm not above helping an unfortunate soul find new purpose in life…so long as it benefits me

Off with their heads! the woman screamed. Off with their stinking, boring heads! Redd, The Looking Class Wars

I would find no value in the allegiance of a fool ready to give himself up to any old hag of Black Imagination who presented herself. I will accept your allegiance. For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man. To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service. (Redd and Sacrenoir)

But I killed you, said Alyss. Did you? Redd turned to The Cat. Why wasn't I informed? --The Looking Glass Wars

Off with...Wonderland's head!

I'd say she's ready, wouldn't you? --The Rook, 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.

Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself with groveling or sniveling, or appeals to her nomexistent mercy.

Redd's lact of knowledge astounded the tutor. Did she really understand so little about how a Wonderland princess became queen? She doesn't know what she doesn't know, he mumbled, and then: Your Imperial Viciousness, perhpas we should speak face-to-face, without this velvet barrier between us. Are you decent? I'm never decent!

She had heard it was easy to blame others for one's own failures. But that wasn't exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened--hard to live with it. [...] It was hard to blame them, harder still to live with the need to blame them.

When I give the go ahead, go ahead. --Alyss

Boaderland: Where women could be given away by their husbands to pay debts, and young, rowdy gallants from Wonderland, fresh from the rigors of formal education, came to indulge themselvs in roving pleasure tents; where maps were useless because the nation consisted wholly of nomadic camps, settlements, towns and cities, and a visitor might find the country's capital, Boarderton, situated in the cool sgadows of the Glyph Cliffs one day but spread out along Fortune Bay the next.