Peter Pan Retelling Quotes

“Because this caring for someone is not what I thought it would be. It's not losing who I am. It's finding my soul interwoven with another - and chasing the stars together.
And that might just be the greatest adventure of them all.”
― Kara Swanson, Dust

“I am the first Lost boy.
And I learned a long time ago:
If you wear wonder like a weapon,
the world won't notice when it wounds.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse

“They call it rage—but it's just grief with barnacles on its back.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse

“Do you know what it means to shine for the dying? To bottle your own guilt and call it salvation? I was never the hero. I was the bait.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse

“You think your rage matters?
That grief makes you dangerous?
Darling, I was made from grief—
I just never learned to weep.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse

“I don't remember falling—
just the hush before it.
Like a breath I meant to keep
but let go by accident.
Like closing my eyes mid-sentence
and forgetting the word for
stay.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse

“One day, you will feel what it means to miss someone
so hard you unravel. To feel them in places that never felt haunted before. I hope it haunts you the way it haunts me.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse