145 Quotes by Christina Henry

The world is wrong about so many things.

Alice remembered who she was before. She just couldn’t recall what had happened to that girl to make her this girl.

No man in the New City could love her as Hatcher did – of that Alice was certain. It was deep and all-consuming but somehow never suffocating. It was unselfish. It did not ask for anything and yet he made no secret of his need. There was no one in the world like Hatcher, and if she hadn’t been mad, there would be no Hatcher for her.

There is more to you than you know. Remember that.

He won’t be safe,” Hatcher repeated. “For I will find him and I will strip the flesh from his bones piece by piece. There is no place the Rabbit can hide, no hole he can disappear into. I will not sleep again until I have heard him scream for mercy he will never receive.

Was this, I wondered, what it felt like to be a grown-up? Did you always feel the weight of things on you, your cares pressing you down like a burden you could never shake? No wonder Peter could fly. He had no worries to weight him to the earth.

Love does that. It changes you in ways that can’t be undone.

The hospital where Alice had lived for the last ten years was in the Old City, so her sister was wrong. Alice did belong there.

Start by holding your head high,” Hatcher said. “You’re only a mouse if you let them make you one.