Top 150 Christina Henry Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “So she should not wish to undo the past but learn to accept its consequences, and remember that not all consequences were evil.”

— Christina Henry

52. “I only wanted them near me because I loved them. Though, of course, it was because I loved them that Peter had to take them from me.”

— Christina Henry

53. “What are those?” Charlie asked, pointing at Sal’s chest.”

— Christina Henry

54. “If you let the grief in, it might consume you.”

— Christina Henry

55. “It’s easy to forget the good things.′ Hatcher said.”

— Christina Henry

56. “She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn’t look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.”

— Christina Henry

57. “Occasionally it seemed that her body was actively working against her progress.”

— Christina Henry

58. “And then I was alone, and glad that he was gone. I’d never been glad at Peter’s absence before, and something inside me seemed to shift. My legs hurt like fire for a minute, and then it was over, and I distinctly felt that I was taller than I’ve been a moment before.”

— Christina Henry

59. “She didn’t have to be Cheshire’s ideal of a Magician or Hatcher’s ideal of a lover or her parents’ ideal of a daughter. She could be Alice.”

— Christina Henry

60. “Most men give a girl a ring, you know, not threaten them with murder.” Hatcher.”

— Christina Henry

61. “The world is full of innocent creatures,” Hatcher snapped, drawing close to her ear so no one would overhear them. “You were one yourself once, and no one saved you.”

— Christina Henry

62. “Yes, because it’s obviously better if you beat each other to death with rocks instead of stabbing each other like civilized human beings,” Sal muttered, looking away.”

— Christina Henry

63. “Grandmas didn’t die from stuff like that. Grandmas went on and on, enduring year after year, shriveled and worn but somehow ageless.”

— Christina Henry

64. “She was thinking of the girls who’d escaped with Pipkin, and hoped that they ran in the grass with bare feet, laughing in the sun. She wanted a promise of joy for someone, even if she could not have it for herself.”

— Christina Henry

65. “They wanted the moon, but they hadn’t realize it cost the earth.”

— Christina Henry

66. “He’d been around the island for a while, and I’m sorry to say that being bashed around in Battle and at raids had done nothing very good for his brains.”

— Christina Henry

67. “I liked to watch her in the early morning, watching her breath rise and fall, and know that she was mine. Then she would open those blue eyes and smile, soft and sleepy, and she would love me.”

— Christina Henry

68. “Until I became human, nobody ever told me there was something wrong with my body.”

— Christina Henry

69. “It was Peter’s island, Peter who’d brought us here, and in the back of every boy’s mind was some form of the same thought – He could send me back, if he wanted.”

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70. “Out here the world was bright and sharp and full of hungry mouths waiting to eat her up.”

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71. “Alice dreamed of blood. Blood on her hands and under her feet, blood in her mouth and pouring from her eyes. The room was filled with it.”

— Christina Henry

72. “Peter had just forgotten, the way that Peter did forget about anything that wasn’t right in front of him at the moment.”

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73. “What about Alice? Did she have a happy ending?”

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74. “Red didn’t like to think of herself as a killer, but she wasn’t about to let herself get eaten up just because she was a woman alone in the woods.”

— Christina Henry

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

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76. “Things that are worth nothing are easy to come by.”

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77. “It would always be Peter and me, like we were in the beginning.”

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78. “The world was abruptly sharp and clear, too clear, and too alive. It was terrible beyond words. The.”

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79. “All she’d found was that women spent a great deal of time saying they were please when they were not, similing when they were not happy, and pretending their anger and frustation did not exist.”

— Christina Henry

80. “This was not Hatch, her constant companion through the mouse hole. Nor was this the man who had methodically rescued her from a burning building. This was Hatcher, the murderer with the axe, the man who had been found covered in blood and surrounded by bodies.”

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81. “Girls like us, we have to save ourselves. Nobody else will get you home.”

— Christina Henry

82. “She would never comprehend the need to hurt those who never hurt her, the need to hate for the sake of hating. She never wanted to rule over others in fear. No, she would never understand the Jabberwocky.”

— Christina Henry

83. “I didn’t know how to explain to him that for all that I still looked young, I had been feeling old. The years had passed, so many of them, and they were starting to wear on me. After a while it wasn’t fun to always feel like you had to have fun. -Jamie.”

— Christina Henry

84. “There is more to you than you know. Remember that.”

— Christina Henry

85. “They all thought they were special, but only I was. I was first and none of them could take that from me. I was first and best and last and always.”

— Christina Henry

86. “In the Old City there were very few ways for women to stay alive, and all of them involved a man.”

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87. “The world gobbles us and chews us and swallows us,” Hatcher said, in that uncanny way he had of reading her thoughts. “I think happy endings must be accidents.”

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88. “Humans, Amelia knew, would do anything for belief. They would proselytize from the highest mountain for belief. They would collect like-minded people and form mobs for belief. They would kill one another for belief.”

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89. “Everything else is the past or the future. Don’t think about them. Be here with me, right now.”

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90. “Do not go seeking the Rabbit, else you wish for more death and madness.”

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91. “He thinks there should be a happy ending just because he believes in one.”

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92. “She was not a superstitious woman. She was a good Catholic and she knew very well that death did not cling to objects and that if her dreams were troubled she could always pray to the Virgin Mary.”

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93. “But of course the kinds of adventures that happen to young women are never the sort that you tell over cognac, and they usually leave scars.”

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94. “Adults, Alice reflected, could learn something from the way children bounced back from horror like little rubber balls.”

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95. “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.”

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96. “It made Alice realize how much of life was full of empty stuff, objects longed for because the hope of them made your small life seem bigger, better, brighter.”

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97. “The ocean was a violent place, yes, but it was violence without malice. When a shark ate a sea lion, it did not hate the sea lion. It only wanted to live.”

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98. “Freedom was far more intoxicating than safety could ever be.”

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99. “It crashed over me all at once, the truth I’d been pretending wasn’t there. I was growing up. I was growing up, and I was so afraid.”

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100. “Just because I’m mad doesn’t mean I’m not right. And you were mad not so long ago yourself.”

— Christina Henry