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"Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded."

"...some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves."

"...smiling is permitted only on alternate Thursdays."

"...it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere,..."

"Milo began to think as hard as he could (which was difficult, since he wasn't used to it)."

"A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect,...."

"'Why not indeed?' exclaimed the bug, who seemed equally at home on either side of the argument."

"And the crowd waved and cheered wildly, for, while they didn't care at all about anyone arriving, they were always very pleased to see someone go."

"And you are almost never right about anything....and, when you are, it's usually an accident."

"'Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up towards the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that.'

'What happens to them? insisted Milo.

'Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else,' said Alec thoughtfully, 'and I've heard that they walk among the stars.' And with that he skipped off once again toward the waiting woods."

"Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't--and I don't care at all where I'm not."

"...if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones."

"He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory."

"It gets so lonely around here,...that I call myself seven or eight times a day just to see how I am."

"...but it's completely accurate, and as long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself."