“The gods never meant you to live forever, so why spoil they life they did give you? Is a rainbow any less beautiful because it's short-lived? Or because you can't grasp hold of it? Consider, man. Perhaps it is beautiful… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“Every crime like this needs someone like me to look away and say nothing.” — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“His heart cannoned like a billiard ball off some green wall of his innards.” — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness — 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, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In…” quote by Geraldine McCaughrean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f31/geraldine-mccaughrean-19228_broken_peter-pan-has-never-broken-his-terrible_73491.jpg)
