"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth," or so I have said. [He flips through the pages of the journal some more as he speaks.] That is to say... If there is no Evil Queen to be found here, the improbable notion that there is a version with her name being applied in these journals is the truth.

[Or. You know. The Evil Queen hasn't used the journals because it would expose their Essence. But who could resist these fun little things?]