I was suddenly sorry I'd grown, even if it was only a…

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

— Christina Henry

“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 like a…

— Christina Henry

“Well, that was a beautiful wedding," Beezle said. "The bride has spider goo in her hair and the groom smells like sulfur. the parking-lot-in-front-of-the-burning…

— Christina Henry

“She knew what he offered. He would kill her first, with the gun or the knife or his fists if he had to, and…

— Christina Henry

“It’s not such a wonderful thing, to be young,” I said. “It’s heartless, and selfish.” “But, oh, so free,” Nod said sadly. “So free…

— Christina Henry

“You came, you saw, you burned everything to the ground.”

— Christina Henry

“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…

— Christina Henry

“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…

— Christina Henry

“ Come on, Jamie, follow me. Follow me and you’ll never grow up! ” I took one step, and then another, and then I…

— Christina Henry

“She heard a little popping noise then like something had broken in the space between them. Cheshire frowned. "That was not very fun of…

— Christina Henry

“Gabriel is my bodyguard, " I said stiffly. J.B. snorted. "He wants something to do with your body, but it ain't guarding that he's…

— Christina Henry

“And it made me love him a little less, and the memory of that smile hurt deep down in the place where I kept…

— Christina Henry

“I’ll meet you tomorrow morning at ten in your office, and explain everything. In the meantime, go home and get some sleep.” “I have…

— Christina Henry

“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…

— Christina Henry

“He was definitely taking his bodyguard duties seriously tonight. He gave off a take-one-step-closer-and-I-will-show-you-Armageddon vibe.”

— Christina Henry