145 Quotes by Christina Henry

Most men give a girl a ring, you know, not threaten them with murder.” Hatcher.

All she’d found was that women spent a great deal of time saying they were please when they were not, similing when they were not happy, and pretending their anger and frustation did not exist.

Do not mistake the revelation of my body for the revelation of my heart. My heart keeps its own secrets, and they don’t belong to you or anyone else just because you’ve seen me with a fish tail.

This was not Hatch, her constant companion through the mouse hole. Nor was this the man who had methodically rescued her from a burning building. This was Hatcher, the murderer with the axe, the man who had been found covered in blood and surrounded by bodies.

Was this, too, part of growing up? Was it facing the bad things you’d done as well as the good, and knowing all your mistakes had consequences?

He was haunted, same as she was, except he didn’t know the name of his ghost.

Alice dreamed of blood. Blood on her hands and under her feet, blood in her mouth and pouring from her eyes. The room was filled with it.

So she should not wish to undo the past but learn to accept its consequences, and remember that not all consequences were evil.

Then his crying wouldn’t wake you up.” I said nothing, because it wasn’t worth my breath. Peter never lost an argument – and not because he wasn’t wrong; he was, and pretty often too – but because he never got tired. He’d keep coming back at you no matter how right you were until you threw up your hands and let him win just so you’d have some peace.