through the looking glass

this weekend we welcome june.  june.  where does the time fly?!?!  i need it to fly back.  still progressing slow on the reading list, but slow and steady wins the race.  i do appreciate some of my friends being so vested in this reading journey with me.  a coworker and friend of mine also has a love for books and she keeps an eye out for me at thrift stores and old bookstores.  from time to time, she snags me a copy that is on my reading list.  this time it was through the looking glass.  little gifts that go a long way!

{through the looking glass, lewis carroll}

"'do you hear the snow against the window-panes, kitty?  how nice and soft it sounds!  just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside.  i wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?  and then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says 'go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.' and when they wake up in the summer, kitty, they dress themselves all in green, and dance about--whenever the wind blows--oh that's very pretty!' cried alice, dropping the ball of worsted to clap her hands. 'and i do so wish it was true!  i'm sure the woods look sleepy in the autumn, when the leaves are getting brown.'"

"and here i wish i could tell you half the things alice used to say, beginning with her favorite phrase, 'let's pretend.'"

"'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 mean, what is an un-birthday present?' 'a present given when it isn't your birthday, of course.'"

"you see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick."

"'manners are not taught in lessons,' said alice.  'lessons teach you to do sums, and things of that sort.' 'can you do addition?' the white queen asked.  'what's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?'  'i don't know,' said alice.  'i lost count.' 'she can't do addition,' the red queen interrupted.  'can you do subtraction? take nine from eight.'  'nine from eight i can't, you know,' alice replied very readily: 'but-----'  ' she can't do subtraction,' said the white queen.  'can you do division? divide a loaf by a knife--what's that answer to that?'  'i suppose---' alice was beginning, but the red queen answered for her.  'bread-and-butter, of course.  try another subtraction sum.  take a bone from a dog: what remains?'"

"'it's too late to correct it,' said the red queen: 'when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.'"

life lessons from the classics.  got it, red queen, i need to watch what i say.


find my other 2013 reading list posts here:  les mis {part one}, les mis {part two}, march reads {part one}, march reads {part two}, when it rains