It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves you. Even just shows an interest. Even someone who doesn't exist, or isn't yours. No,… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted,… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share
“Why don't you come with me?" "Why? Where are you going?" "Home. I've had enough. I hate England." "Hate England?" It was too much… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share
There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share
“Every crime like this needs someone like me to look away and say nothing.” — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share
“Not everyone can be rich,' Peter went on. 'Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share
“But I refuse to say. Because I love him, and you'd give anything, wouldn't you? You'd give anything for someone you love not to… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share
“That's how it's done, you see. It's the same way people get horses out of burning buildings. When the whole world's on fire around… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share
“Like everything perfect, he set up a ferocious pain inside me -- a flickering, griping sort of pain, because nothing as marvelous as that… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share
“When Titus speaks, I can hear every word. For me, that's like when the optician slides home the right lens and all the e's… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share
He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life.… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share
“His heart cannoned like a billiard ball off some green wall of his innards.” — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share
If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share
“The fictional exploits of buccaneering men had lost their magic for him. Besides, there were other pirates on view in Tilbury that spring. One,… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share
“Don't struggle too hard to understand people, Sym. They're hideously complicated. Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share
