Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Book

The Gryphon rushes off before the Mock Turtle has finished his song to get to the trial of the Knave of Hearts.

`Chorus again!' cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had just begun to repeat it, when a cry of `The trial's beginning!' was heard in the distance.

`Come on!' cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by the hand, it hurried off, without waiting for the end of the song.

`What trial is it?' Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only answered `Come on!' and ran the faster, while more and more faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:--

`Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful Soup!'

The White Queen says, "why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast," in Through the Looking Glass.

Alice laughed. `There's not use trying,' she said: `one can't believe impossible things.'

`I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. `When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

"If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't."

Tweedledee, Through the Looking-Glass

When Alice first meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Through the Looking Glass, she is reminded of a poem about them, which she can barely resist saying out loud. Tweedledum seems to read her mind:

`I know what you're thinking about,' said Tweedledum: `but it isn't so, nohow.'

`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'

`I was thinking,' Alice said very politely, `which is the best way out of this wood: it's getting so dark. Would you tell me, please?'

But the little men only looked at each other and grinned.

Curiosity

....burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

The first time Alice unlocks the door she doesn't see anyone, all she sees is a beautiful garden.

Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head though the doorway; `and even if my head would go through,' thought poor Alice, `it would be of very little use without my shoulders...

The second time she opens the door she is the right size to go through into the garden. Once there, the first people she sees are the Queen's gardeners; the two, five and seven of spades.

Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the little glass table. `Now, I'll manage better this time,' she said to herself, and began by taking the little golden key, and unlocking the door that led into the garden. Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocked) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the little passage: and THEN--she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains.

A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses growing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily painting them red. Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went nearer to watch them, and just as she came up to them she heard one of them say, `Look out now, Five! Don't go splashing paint over me like that!'

The White Rabbit mistakes Alice for his housemaid, Mary Ann.

Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and called out to her in an angry tone, `Why, Mary Ann, what ARE you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!' And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake it had made.

`He took me for his housemaid,' she said to herself as she ran. `How surprised he'll be when he finds out who I am! But I'd better take him his fan and gloves--that is, if I can find them.'

The Mad Hatter does keep drinking tea.

In the book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, he not only drinks tea at the mad tea party, but carries on drinking tea when he appears as a witness at the trial of the Knave of Hearts. Then, when he appears again in Through the Looking Glass(with the new name Hatta) he is still drinking tea.

In Lewis Carroll's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice first cries in Chapter 1, Down the Rabbit Hole.

She is upset because after being pleased that she has shrunk small enough to fit through the little door that leads to the beautiful garden, she realises that she has left the key to the door on the glass table and it is out of reach.

She soon cries again, in Chapter 2, The Pool of Tears. She has eaten the cake marked 'eat me' and is glad that she has now grown large enough to reach the golden key. However, she quickly realises that as she is now over nine feet tall, she has no chance of fitting through the little door.

Her last bout of crying in this scene occurs as a result of an identity crisis and loneliness. Because she changes so suddenly and so dramatically, she wonders if perhaps she is no longer herself and has been exchanged for somebody else during the night. She is distressed to conclude that she must have been exchanged for Mabel, a girl of the same age as Alice who "knows such a very little" and lives in a "poky little house" with "next to no toys to play with, and ever so many lessons to learn." She very soon wishes that someone would put their head down the hole to call her back home as she is, "so very tired of being all alone here!"