"Everything was beautiful,

and nothing hurt." -KV

`I am real!' said Alice, and began to cry.

`You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying,' Tweedledee remarked: `there's nothing to cry about.'

`If I wasn't real,' Alice said--half laughing through her tears, it all seemed so ridiculous--`I shouldn't be able to cry.'

`I hope you don't suppose those are real tears?' Tweedledum interrupted in a tone of great contempt.