Top 150 Christina Henry Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Just because I’m mad doesn’t mean I’m not right. And you were mad not so long ago yourself.”

— Christina Henry

102. “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.”

— Christina Henry

103. “Did he sprout out of the ground like a mushroom?”

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104. “Your magic is there, if only you would let it be instead of fighting it all the time.”

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105. “For all the girls who save themselves And all the girls still learning how.”

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106. “She was not following his script, and he didn’t know how to improvise.”

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107. “It will always be Peter and me, like it was in the beginning, like it will be in the end. Peter, who took everything from me and gave everything too.”

— Christina Henry

108. “Little lost Alice decided she didn’t want to be lost anymore. Somehow Elizabeth had gotten the impression that Alice was a broken thing, not someone to be admired. But then she remembered the Voice telling her that Alice “made it all fall down.”

— Christina Henry

109. “When I was a child I feared the shadows in the corners and the creaking under the bed, and my mother or my nurserymaid would always tell me not to be silly, that there was nothing really there. Of course there was nothing really there, because the monsters were out in the wild world, and nobody told me to watch out for them.”

— Christina Henry

110. “Her heart fluttered in her chest, a moth captured in a net.”

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111. “People want to believe in mermaids.”

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112. “Amelia felt there was nothing more absurd than believing in a God who never spoke or appeared to you but disbelieving a mermaid that sat in your parlor.”

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113. “There was no light in their rooms save that of the silver moon through the bars, and the occasional passage of a lamp by the attendant walking the halls. She could not see the color of his eyes, only the wet gleam of them.”

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114. “It didn’t look like any doctor she knew, but Alice wasn’t taking any chances. “Let me see your whole face,” she said. “Good,” the grey eye said. “You’re thinking. That’s good. Not just a pretty face, then.”

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115. “Now we must fly.”

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116. “I’m not seeing into your thoughts, silly boy, but into your face. You have such an honest face. A face that tells everything a person could want to know if they only look right... But don’t worry. Most people don’t know how to look right.”

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117. “Your man is her creature now, and he’ll never belong to himself again.”

— Christina Henry

118. “It’s not just your fear, though. You know this house is full of enemies. You knew when you followed that impossible boy through the storm, but you had no choice, because it was either come here or die in the snow.”

— Christina Henry

119. “But still he watched... in hope, for the dearest wish of all... , to brush up against something magical and hope some of that magic would stay with him for always.”

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120. “Alice hardly recalled when she was new and whole. That girl seemed like someone else she’d known once, long ago and far away.”

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121. “She’d taught Alice how to use her magic, how to accept what it could and could not do, how to make it come when she called and lie quiet when she didn’t need it. Much of what she taught Alice had seemed like knowledge Alice already had, only it was hidden under the surface of her skin, waiting for her to peer underneath.”

— Christina Henry

122. “Charlie trailed behind me, a little yellow-feathered duckling, and he patted my shoulder when I put Del in the ground and wept like I would never stop.”

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123. “The night before, being alone seemed a frightening prospect. Now it was relaxing. She could stop pretending to her companion that she was fine when she was most decidedly not.”

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124. “The attendants and the doctors would not bother to free the patients, especially when most families would be thrilled to be free of the burden of their mad relatives.”

— Christina Henry

125. “Sometimes the lure of thought and memory was too much for her, a tug that compelled her away from the world and into her own head.”

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126. “After a while it wasn’t fun to always feel like you had to have fun.”

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127. “The world,” Amelia said, “is wrong about so many things.”

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128. “You’re thinking. That’s good. Not just a pretty face, then.”

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129. “Elizabeth had a feeling that Alice had told too much of her story, and so they’d sent her away.”

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130. “A kiss can be made of magic too. I’d never known that.”

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131. “It was nice, Alice mused, to remember that there was a purpose to living besides madness and death.”

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132. “I can help him if he wants to be helped, but perhaps he doesn’t want to.”

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133. “Sometimes I thought that Peter couldn’t be hurt, and that was why he didn’t bother so much when others were, for he couldn’t understand their pain.”

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134. “They were all willing to believe in the existence of an animal they’d never seen before but they weren’t willing to believe it could think and reason.”

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135. “She was exhausted, and had spent some time breathing smoke and poison.”

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136. “He used that word a lot, whatever. It was a strange word, vague but at the same time full of possibilities.”

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137. “Memories surfaced, one by one, and she was afraid to see all of them at once.”

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138. “It wasn’t such a terrible thing, then, growing up.”

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139. “She felt suddenly the discomfort of being the only woman in a room full of men, men who gazed at her with speculative eyes. Her body did not seem to be protected by her clothes, and she resistet the urge to turn away. They would not make her ashamed of herself. They would not make her a human woman.”

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140. “You’re my only light, Alice.”

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141. “Thorns pricked at her skin everywhere, poked at her face.”

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142. “She wasn’t under any obligation to be polite to someone who thought she was his next victim.”

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143. “The night is alive and so am I.”

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144. “I do know this. You’re a Magician, as sure as I’m mad.”

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145. “You weren’t broken, Alice,” Hatcher said. “You were only cast in a new mold, and she didn’t like the shape of it.”

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146. “I know what you’re thinking, because that’s what I’d be thinking if I were you,” the voice said. “We’re in the loony bin, aren’t we? Now, come over and have a look through the hole and you’ll see.”

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147. “Little lost Alice decided she didn’t want to be lost anymore.”

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148. “I think I fell in love with her then, when she pretended that everything was just the same as it had always been.”

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149. “That was a hard and terrible thing to acknowledge, the idea that even if she managed to get away, that he would haunt her always – the boogeyman in the closet, the monster under the bed, the creature tapping at her window.”

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150. “The night is alive, Alice.’ Hatcher said. ‘And so am I.”

— Christina Henry