“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 at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.” — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action. — 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 be brave! If we tell ourselves we can do it; if we say to our hearts, 'don't jump about'; if we carry ourselves like heroes... we can all be brave! We can all look Danger in… — 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 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 and g's and o's and c's become perfectly clear again and it isn't a struggle, even to read the bottom-most line...His voice touches places inside me like someone moving through a house, flicking light switches...No peering… — 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 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
![“[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)
