Jen said some guy asked you but you didn’t want to go. Why not?”I shrug. “I have this character flaw? Called dignity?

It’s great to have him watching my back without standing in my way.

Some perv lured you here via a magical website?

The rabbit hole has collapsed, and my key is melded to a nugget of worthless metal.

I’d lose that smile if I were you.” I jingle the car keys in his face. “Your life is in my hands, lest you forget ” My imitation of his cockney accent is actually spot-on,...

Now, you listen, Alyssa Victoria Gardner. Normal is subjective. Don’t ever let anyone tell you you’re not normal. Because you are to me. And my opinion is all that matters. Got it?

But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more, until my heart is strangled and broken.

I am mad, and I embrace it.

Tearing down the rest of the world won’t make you happy. Look inside yourself. Because finding who you were meant to be? What you were put into this world to do? That’s what fills the...

I know how to emulate crazy.

We have regiments as innumerable as the sands…And arsenals as uncountable as the stars.

All I have to do is set the power free. Escape the chains of humanity, let madness be my guide. If I forget everything but Wonderland, I can become beautiful pandemonium.

Memories, real and irreplaceable, all of them. The happy ones, the bitter ones, the terrified and the poignant.

You crave chaos. You’re happiest when the world is in an uproar. You thrive on madness. Even when your magic is at its best when it’s the catalyst to confusion. You still can’t admit this?

The blaze from the trees spreads to tablecloths and crepe paper – a chain reaction so brilliantly spectacular and terrible, I ache to be a part of it…to devour and destroy,then relish in the plunder.I...

You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It’s in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that’s what we’re doing here. We are giving our food a fighting chance.

Between the suit and the pinkish hair, he looks like an emo gangster.

Hello, luv,” he says through a thick curtain of blue hair. “Hope I’m…interrupting.