Christina Henry Quotes

“If you go chasing your freedom your fate will only follow you there and force you back.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“There were monsters in the night but there were monsters in the day too, and monsters inside people who smiled and showed you all their teeth like they were nice. There were monsters inside Alice, but they only had power if she gave it to them, and other things had power too, like the laughter of children enjoying a picnic together and like the love she had for this terrible, wonderful, imperfect man, this man who hid inside the body of a wolf because he thought that was where he belonged.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“She knew what he offered. He would kill her first, with the gun or the knife or his fists if he had to, and make certain she was never trapped in that cage again. From another man this might be terrifying, that he would so blithely consider murdering his companion. But she understood that from Hatcher this was tantamount to an offer of marriage. This was what he could do for her, how he showed he cared.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“They wanted the moon, but they hadn't realize it cost the earth.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“If I'm 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.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“When he'd smiled at me and told me we would have adventures, I thought we would be friends always, that it would just be Peter and me, like brothers. But now I saw - and it was so strange that after all this time I finally did see - that I wasn't enough for him, had never been enough. I didn't mean anything to him, and not even I was special if he could keep a secret like this. And it made me love him a little less, and the memory of that smile hurt deep down in the place where I kept all my secrets and sorrows.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“The world is wrong about so many things.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“[S]he marveled at how easily the heroines of her favorite books stumbled across physical clues after a crime. Fiction really was easier than truth.”
― Christina Henry, Good Girls Don’t Die