Top 150 Christina Henry Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Christina Henry

2. “But you can’t escape from shadows or pain. You only find new ones. It’s better, I think, not to try to escape them at all but to accept that they will be there, and to remember that good things happen, too, even if you can’t always see them.”

— Christina Henry

3. “I hate Peter Pan.”

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4. “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 my sorrows.”

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5. “Just because I’m mad doesn’t mean I’m not right.”

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6. “We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things and grown-up things.”

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7. “Women who did what they liked instead of what other people wished were often accused of witchcraft, because only a witch would be so defiant, or so it was thought.”

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8. “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.”

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9. “The world is full of innocent creatures, you were one yourself once, and no one saved you.”

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10. “Humans often valued what they should not, she reflected, and most often they did not value what was right before their eyes.”

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11. “Where’s home, my Alice?” Hatcher said. “Where’s home? We don’t have a home, you and I.”

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12. “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.”

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

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14. “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.”

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15. “The faster she ran, the freer she was, fast and free and far away from everything that hurt.”

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16. “If you go chasing your freedom your fate will only follow you there and force you back.”

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17. “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.”

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18. “All children grow up, or they die, or both. All children, except one.”

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19. “Why is a girl less valuable than a boy?” Amelia asked. She’d heard this before and did not understand it. Did not women bear the next generation? Was not that power more profound than anything a man could do? “Men like to have sons to carry on their name,” Charity said. “They aren’t men otherwise.”

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20. “Do not mistake the revelation of my body for the revelation of my heart. My heart keeps its own secrets, and they don’t belong to you or anyone else just because you’ve seen me with a fish tail.”

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21. “Then his crying wouldn’t wake you up.” I said nothing, because it wasn’t worth my breath. Peter never lost an argument – and not because he wasn’t wrong; he was, and pretty often too – but because he never got tired. He’d keep coming back at you no matter how right you were until you threw up your hands and let him win just so you’d have some peace.”

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22. “One day, long ago, she’d gone seeking an adventure and found terror instead. That day had changed the course of her life, and left her hands awash in blood. It was not her fault, but this was how it must be. She understood that now.”

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23. “There was comfort in ignorance, in thinking the world a certain way and not knowing any different.”

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24. “You’re only a mouse if you let them make you one.”

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25. “All the horror and blood and monsters and fear crystallized to a fine thin shard inside her, harder than diamonds. What was one more monster in the face of so many?”

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26. “There’s nothing worse than having a fit and no one giving you the proper attention for it.”

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27. “How could I ever love you properly with a wall between us for all time?”

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28. “Was this, too, part of growing up? Was it facing the bad things you’d done as well as the good, and knowing all your mistakes had consequences? Peter made mistakes all the time – he was thoughtless; he hurt people. But it never troubled him, not for a moment. He forgot all about it in an instant. That was being a boy.”

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29. “What, you can read Lucifer’s mind now?” I asked. “No, he sent me a message on Facebook,” Beezle said. “I don’t even want to know what Lucifer is doing on Facebook,” I said. “Reposting pictures, like everyone else,” he said.”

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30. “The world is wrong about so many things.”

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31. “Was this, too, part of growing up? Was it facing the bad things you’d done as well as the good, and knowing all your mistakes had consequences?”

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32. “I don’t belong to you... You thought if I married you that I would, but I don’t. I don’t belong to any man... I only belong to myself. But belonging to myself doesn’t mean I don’t love you or that I don’t want to stand beside you.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “A bear that would turn into a prince, she thought, and then smiled sadly to herself. Her prince was not a bear, but a madman. Alice had learned that you could not choose whom to love. If royalty appeared out of nowhere and offered her a future, she would have to turn away from it, because Alice could never love any other but the one with grey eyes and bloodstained hands.”

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35. “The ocean has a rhythm, but it has no heart.”

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36. “One thing Red had learned from years of reading and movie watching was that people were far scarier than any disease or zombie or alien or face-eating monster.”

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37. “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.”

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38. “If I am 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.”

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39. “He was haunted, same as she was, except he didn’t know the name of his ghost.”

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40. “That was the trouble with not being right in the head. You couldn’t always tell if your eyes were telling the truth.”

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41. “Sometimes at night, when the nightmare clung to me, I wondered if Peter’s assurances that I would never grow up were only assurances that I would die before such a thing happened. I wondered if that were better, to die before I became something withered and grey and not wanted.”

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42. “It’s not as easy as you’d think, burning a dead creature. Flesh and skin want to cook and crisp and char rather than ignite.”

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43. “Because Peter promised them adventures and happiness and then took them away to the island where they died. They weren’t forever young, unless dying when you were young kept you that way for always.”

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44. “I was mad once too, but it doesn’t seem to have taken properly.”

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45. “Interesting’ meant that you attracted the notice of men who would hurt you to possess whatever they found ‘interesting’ about you.”

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46. “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.”

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47. “Every human who saw it remarked on its size, but to Amelia it looked like a very small container compared to the ocean.”

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48. “She must start believing in impossible things, for impossible things kept appearing before her eyes.”

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49. “I was suddenly sorry I’d grown, even if it was only a little, and wished I could be similar again and that it was just Peter and me, running and climbing and laughing, back when the island was ours.”

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50. “There’s nowhere for us to go back to. We can go forward. We can find our way out.”

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