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This entry will be a place to put my quotes...of the Cheshire Cat.

"Please, would you tell me," said Alice, a little timidly, ... "why your cat grins like that?"
"It's a Cheshire cat," said the Duchess, "and that's why."

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
Alice didn't think that proved it at all: however she went on. "And how do you know that you're mad?"
"To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?"
"I suppose so," said Alice
"Well, then, " the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where –" said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
"– so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation.
"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."

The Cheshire Cat from Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

"Feeling better after that mad dash? You're not out of the woods yet!
The queen's a stickler for justice! She won't forget you till she remembers!
She won't stop hounding you until you get her memory back!
Does she forget because she remembers? Did she remember that she forgot?
Doesn't matter, I suppose."

"You should do something. But you don't have to do anything.
If you can't remember something, it's like it never happened.
Likewise, if something never happened, you can't remember it.
Try too hard to remember, and you're memory might lie to you.
That's all I'll say. The rest is for you to figure out."

Extra: The Cheshire Cat appears to cheer Alice up when it turns up suddenly at the Queen of Hearts' croquet field, and when sentenced to death baffles everyone by making its body disappear, but its head remain visible, sparking a massive argument between the King, the Queen and the executioner about whether or not something that does not have a body can indeed be beheaded.