Okay! Skimmed for Alice quotes. With the Gutenberg editions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, here's how they compare.
Wonderland:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11 ... mages.html
Looking Glass:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12/12-h/12-h.htm
1. Preface: Down the Rabbit Hole
In another moment, down went Alice after the rabbit - never once considering how in the world she would get out again.
Wonderland Chapter I
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
Not quite literal but a very close paraphrase.
2. A Bitter Pill: Notes from the Rabbit Hole #1
"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" The Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
"No, I give up," Alice replied. "What's the answer?"
"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter.
"Nor I," said the March Hare.
Alice sighed wearily. "I think you might do something better with the time," she said," than wasting it asking riddles that have no answers."
Wonderland Chapter VII
“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “what’s the answer?”
“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter.
“Nor I,” said the March Hare.
Alice sighed wearily. “I think you might do something better with the time,” she said, “than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.”
Also very close but not quite exact.
3. A Different Well (Notes from the Rabbit Hole #2)
"How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: *was* I the same when I got up this morning?"
Wonderland Chapter II
How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning?
An exact quote.
4. "He Made Things Up" (Notes from the Rabbit Hole #3)
"Imagination is the only weapon in the war with reality."
Not only does this quote not appear, but even the word "imagination" does not appear in the text of either Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through The Looking Glass.
5. A Pineapple and A Pea (Notes from the Rabbit Hole #4)
"Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do - some... don't ever want to."
Not only does this quote not appear, but the word sequence "find the way" does not appear in the text of either Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through The Looking Glass.
6. Gravity & Electricity, Space & Time (Notes from the Rabbit Hole #5)
"I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours."
Not only does this quote not appear, but neither the word sequences "not crazy" nor "my reality" appear in the text of either Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through The Looking Glass.
7. A Deeper Draft Vessel (Notes from the Rabbit Hole #6)
When the day becomes the night and the sky becomes the sea
when the clock strikes heavy and there's no time for tea;
and in our darkest hour, before my final rhyme
she will come home to Wonderland
and turn back the hands of time.
Not only does this poem not appear, but neither the word sequences "day becomes" nor "home to" nor "clock strikes" nor "darkest hour" appear in the text of either Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through The Looking Glass.
8. A Deeper Draft (Redux) (Notes from the Rabbit Hole #7)
"It was much pleasanter at home" thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger or smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole - and yet - and yet - it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!"
Wonderland Chapter IV
“It was much pleasanter at home,” thought poor Alice, “when one wasn’t always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life!
An exact quote.
9. Never Heard of the Guy (Notes from the Rabbit Hole #8)
"You may have noticed, I'm not all there myself."
Not only does this quote not appear, but the word sequence "all there" does not appear in the text of either Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through The Looking Glass.
10. Shadow Trails (Notes from the Rabbit Hole #9)
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cheshire 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."
Wonderland Chapter VI:
“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.”
An exact quote.
11. Introduction to Part 2: Black
"Alice waited for a few minutes to see if she would shrink any further: She felt a little nervous about this; "for it might end, you know," said Alice to herself, "in my going out altogether, like a candle." And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember having ever seen such a thing."
Wonderland Chapter I
First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this; “for it might end, you know,” said Alice to herself, “in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?” And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
A very close paraphrase.
So sorry about that but it appears that whatever your 1992 book is, it is not a faithful translation. It has mildly abridged Lewis Carroll's original text into modern style in some places, and has added completely original and bizarre interpolations in others, such as making up a completely new poem with plot elements - a prophecy about Alice "returning" to Wonderland? - never even hinted at in the original.
This is such a startling and odd thing to happen, however, that one might go "full woo" and wonder if there's any synchronistic message here that the universe is trying to send? After all, the first "made up" quote appearing in the chapter "He Made Things Up" - what's the odds of that?
Regards, Nate