Cynthia Pelayo > Quotes

“Chicago was plagued with hundreds and hundreds of unsolved murders and missing persons cases. Lauren knew this was her purgatory, her reason for living to find them and set this right.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Children of Chicago

“Was your kindness smothered in cruelty?”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Into the Forest and all the Way Through

“Performing magic behind a cloud on a breathless night confident you'll discover its indiscretion”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Poems of My Night

“It means he belongs to neither world. Not fully bird. Not fully boy. Not alive the way you’re alive”
― Cynthia Pelayo, It Came From Neverland

“He does this often, echolalia, the repetition of sounds, words, phrases, or full sentences. Echolalia is just one of the many characteristics that sets Bela apart from the other children.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, The Shoemaker's Magician

“Art is subjective and everyone should be allowed to like the creations they enjoy, while not having to feel pressured by another’s preferences.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, The Shoemaker's Magician

“At the entrance of the gardens, Lauren approached the two large bronze buffalos, replicas of buffalo statues that were displayed during the World’s Columbian Exhibition in 1893. The event was meant to celebrate Columbus’ arrival in the New World in 1492. The fair was so spectacular that people still talk about it today, the fourteen great buildings constructed by famous architects. There were fairgrounds of wonder and mystery, science and invention, but almost all of it was temporary, temporary buildings, canals and lagoons. Over twenty-seven million people visited Chicago in those six months during the fair and took with them to their small rural towns, cities across America and country’s far away the stories of a great city on a prairie, a great people, and all of the magic that lives there.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Children of Chicago

“The Robber Bridegroom,” “The Crows,” “The Willful Child,” and “The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn How to Shudder.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Children of Chicago

“Thomas Edison: “Of all of my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life’s most soothing things are sweet music and a child’s good night.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters

“A child shouldn’t be afraid to utter a word in their own house, for fear it would be met with mocking, resistance, a belt, a hand yanking hair, followed by a closed fist across the face.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, The Shoemaker's Magician

“You don’t kill him,” James said. “You end him.” His posture stayed rigid. “A creature like that”
― Cynthia Pelayo, It Came From Neverland

“There was never enough money.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Lotería

“It’s woven into the brilliant fabric of who he is, and if someone cannot accept that, then they cannot accept him and do not need to be in our lives.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, The Shoemaker's Magician

“Borinquen — the name originally given to it by the indigenous Tainos before Christopher Columbus came and took everything, including their name, away.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Children of Chicago

“Parents of children with disabilities live in this constant elevated state of anxiety, sometimes even teetering between despair and dread. We know our children have this beaming innocence within them, but because of that they sometimes misinterpret human intention.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, The Shoemaker's Magician

“... I want to comb
your hair, your beautiful hair, I
can only imagine it was smooth
as a spider web, but only those
insects know where your face is
now”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Into the Forest and all the Way Through

“That book was more than paper. It was proof. Every line a thread binding me to what was real. To what everyone told me to forget”
― Cynthia Pelayo, It Came From Neverland

“Ghosts are recordings reliving moments of their life. They cannot move off course from their routine unless there’s a disruption to their path.” “What kind of disruption?”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters

“I remember his name”
― Cynthia Pelayo, It Came From Neverland

“there’s anyone who could know how to spin a lie how to weave a web, hide a body, it would be someone who dances with the law”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Into the Forest and all the Way Through

“Because I was just a girl”
― Cynthia Pelayo, It Came From Neverland

“I shut my eyes tight, hating him. Hating what he'd done to us. We had emerged from that blackness and returned partly broken and we would not be dragged back.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, It Came from Neverland

“some friends open the doors to our exit”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Into the Forest and all the Way Through

“So many men say they do not know what happened to the now missing women who were once under their care.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Into the Forest and all the Way Through

“In the quietest of hours”
― Cynthia Pelayo, It Came From Neverland

“I can't speak. I can't think. words are water and everything melds into a sea of suffering.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters

“His eyes were still closed. His body was still motionless. But then … his lips curled at the corners. Just slightly. Just enough. A smile. But this was someone else’s smile. I knew that for certain. This was someone wearing Edward’s face and smiling at me.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, It Came From Neverland

“I had to choose my words carefully, otherwise they would haul me to Bethlehem Royal Hospital again where they locked away women who dreamed strange dreams or spoke truth's men couldn't bare to hear. ... They would force a diagnosis on me to keep me there trapped. Hysteria, delusion, exhaustion, anything to make sure I'd never leave again.”
― Cynthia Pelayo, It Came from Neverland

“Edward,” I whispered. “Edward”
― Cynthia Pelayo, It Came From Neverland

“but no one wants to talk about how a serial killer was living nearby, so bye as he died and took so much with him”
― Cynthia Pelayo, Into the Forest and all the Way Through