145 Quotes by Christina Henry

What are those?” Charlie asked, pointing at Sal’s chest.

You’re only a mouse if you let them make you one.

If I am a villain, it’s because Peter made me one, because Peter needs to be the shining sun that all the world turns around. Peter needed to be a hero, so somebody needed to be a villain.

All the horror and blood and monsters and fear crystallized to a fine thin shard inside her, harder than diamonds. What was one more monster in the face of so many?

There was comfort in ignorance, in thinking the world a certain way and not knowing any different.

It was Peter’s island, Peter who’d brought us here, and in the back of every boy’s mind was some form of the same thought – He could send me back, if he wanted.

Where’s home, my Alice?” Hatcher said. “Where’s home? We don’t have a home, you and I.

It startled me, it surely did, for I loved Peter – at least most of the time – and spent the better portion of my life trying to make him smile at me the way he did when we first met.

In the Old City there were very few ways for women to stay alive, and all of them involved a man.