“There’s nothing worse than having a fit and no one giving you the proper attention for it.” — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“All children grow up, or they die, or both. All children, except one.” — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“And it made me love him a little less, and the memory of that smile hurt deep down in the place where… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“It’s not such a wonderful thing, to be young,” I said. “It’s heartless, and selfish.” “But, oh, so free,” Nod said sadly.… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“ Come on, Jamie, follow me. Follow me and you’ll never grow up! ” I took one step, and then another, and… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“He’d been around the island for a while, and I’m sorry to say that being bashed around in Battle and at raids… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“Because Peter promised them adventures and happiness and then took them away to the island where they died. They weren’t forever young,… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“They all thought they were special, but only I was. I was first and none of them could take that from me.… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“Peter had just forgotten, the way that Peter did forget about anything that wasn’t right in front of him at the moment.” — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“His eyes were the blue of the forget-me-not, and of a profound melancholy, save when he was plunging his hook into you,… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“I didn’t believe him at first, about the island, though.” “I didn’t either,”I said. “I don’t know that anyone does. It sounds… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“Sometimes at night, when the nightmare clung to me, I wondered if Peter’s assurances that I would never grow up were only… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“It's the injustice that I hate, more than anything," he'd said to Smee one night, his eyes red and glassy, slurring his… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Was this, too, part of growing up? Was it facing the bad things you’d done as well as the good, and knowing… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“Just a boy, Just a child, In a place where no one grows up; Young bodies with old minds, Dream and nightmare… — Emory R. Frie Copy Share Image
“Yes, because it’s obviously better if you beat each other to death with rocks instead of stabbing each other like civilized human… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“It’s not as easy as you’d think, burning a dead creature. Flesh and skin want to cook and crisp and char rather… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
Bre said there's only one real adventure in this world. Love. It's finding the one person who makes you want to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I only wanted them near me because I loved them. Though, of course, it was because I loved them that Peter had… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“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… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
