Top 150 Christina Henry Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Christina Henry

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

— Christina Henry

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

— Christina Henry

55. “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

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

— Christina Henry

57. “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

58. “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

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

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60. “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.”

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

— Christina Henry

62. “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

63. “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

64. “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

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

— Christina Henry

66. “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.”

— Christina Henry

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

— Christina Henry

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

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

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71. “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.”

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72. “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.”

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

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

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75. “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

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

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77. “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

78. “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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79. “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.”

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80. “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

81. “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

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

— Christina Henry

83. “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

84. “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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85. “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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86. “Girls like us, we have to save ourselves. Nobody else will get you home.”

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

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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.”

— Christina Henry

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

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94. “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

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

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97. “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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98. “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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99. “It startled me, it surely did, for I loved Peter – at least most of the time – and spent the better portion of my life trying to make him smile at me the way he did when we first met.”

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100. “In not being afraid she had frightened him, because a girl who was not afraid was a girl who might harm him.”

— Christina Henry