145 Quotes by Christina Henry

I liked to watch her in the early morning, watching her breath rise and fall, and know that she was mine. Then she would open those blue eyes and smile, soft and sleepy, and she would love me.

Occasionally it seemed that her body was actively working against her progress.

I want to rest, “Alice said, and she meant it with all her heart. “Once I lived in a cage, and before that a different kind of cage. I tried to break free from the first one and they put me in one that was much, much worse. All I want is to find a place I have dreamed of, a little cottage in a green field by a lake.

... and the crown on her head felt heavy.

Alice hardly recalled when she was new and whole. That girl seemed like someone else she’d known once, long ago and far away.

You’re thinking. That’s good. Not just a pretty face, then.

She had learned very quickly that there was always another man waiting to scoop up a helpless girl and put her to his own use.

Little lost Alice decided she didn’t want to be lost anymore. Somehow Elizabeth had gotten the impression that Alice was a broken thing, not someone to be admired. But then she remembered the Voice telling her that Alice “made it all fall down.

you’ve escaped from certain death before, so your odds are probably better than the average person’s....She’d survived before. She’d survive again.