cheshire

You know_it always seems obvious to outsiders when someone is doing something wrong, but when your mind is in the midst of evil, it is easy to be manipulated by crueller instincts.

Change happens a lot more than you acknowledge...

I do not understand how you know you only have one life if you have never died, because if you have never died, then you cannot possibly know if you would go on living a second life, or go on living no more lives.

Everyone, this is the new girl. Elder knows her. New girl, this is everyone._ A few people look up politely; some actually smile. Most, however, look wary at best, disgusted at worse. The nurse closest to me jabs her finger behind her ear and starts whispering to nobody.__hat__ wrong with her?_ I ask Harley as he leads me to the table he was sitting at.__h, don__ worry, we__e all mad here.__ giggle, mostly from nerves. __t__ a good thing I read Alice in Wonder-land . I definitely think I__e fallen into the rabbit hole.___ead what?_ Harley asks.__ever mind._ All around me, eyes follow my every move.__ook,_ I say loudly. __ know I look different. But I__ just a person, like you._ I hold my head up high, looking them all in the eyes, trying to hold their stares for as long as possible.__ou tell __m,_ says Harley with another Cheshire grin.

Mind my words, Cheshire, I will have you banished from this kingdom if you tempt me.""An empty threat from an empty girl."She rounded on him, teeth flashing. "I am not empty. I am full to the brim with murder and revenge. I am overflowing and I do not think you wish for me to overflow on to you.""There was a time" _ Cheshire yawned _ "when you overflowed with whimsy and icing sugar. I liked that Catherine better.

But hoping," he said, "is how the impossible can be possible after all.

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.