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"...claimed I'd stolen his heart. Trifling with his affections! Creepy sod. Touching me... Told Papa to never invite him to tea again!"

"Light? Light is useless if what it illuminates causes pain and suffering. Better to cast such things into the dark depths of Lethe; the river of forgetfulness."

"Lizzie hated locked rooms. Her room was farther from the fire than mine. Smoke could not have killed her. She never locked her door! And besides, she knew another way out of the house... out of the window! Someone incapacitated or killed Lizzie, then locked her door, then took the lamp downstairs and started the fire to cover up their crime! Their plan was to kill us all!"

"Regrettably the creature has to die for its image to be properly captured. The subjects of art often suffer."

"'Fire, Alice, Fire!' 'Save yourself! Wake up Lizzie! Lizzie, open the door!' 'The key, Lizzie, unlock the door. You'll burn!"

"When Papa grounded me, I climbed down the trellis. The tree branch makes a bridge, and it's not much of a drop. Keep our secret, Alice, or we're not sisters!"

"The conflagration's point of origin was obvious. First the Library caught fire; and it spread disastrously when the gas-line exploded."

"Music soothes the savage in us. Alice. Practice! The piano's for more than holding down the carpet."

"A dutiful, honorable daughter would commemorate her deceased family in marble. I know a gifted sculptor with whom I might negotiate a commission."

"We'll keep just the one lamp Alice - as a night-light. But it stays in the upstairs hall, and only till you turn 12."

"Lovers often exchange a lock of hair to symbolize their vows. The human heart is opened by a vast assortment of keys."

"Whoever said true art serves neither ornament nor use is ignorant of the aesthetic of the East."

"Certain smells are one-off. You'd never mistake burning human flesh for roasting a lamb chop."

"Poor Dodgson is a pathetic sailor, and an even worse captain. We'd have run aground on the Isis if I hadn't taken an oar."

"Flush the unpleasant from your mind, Alice. Reject the painful as you would the repulsive and depraved. Forgetting is an art."

"Catastrophe may strike even the best regulated families, Miss Liddell. Of course, one family's disaster may be another family's opportunity. And the same goes for a surviving family member, if you know what I mean."

"Radcliffe asked me in just the once. Odd duck. Very proud of his artifacts. Ming, I think he said. And partial to Tokugawa Japan. Doesn't seem the Samurai type, but perhaps that's why."