Geraldine McCaughrean

[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“Why don't you come with me?" "Why? Where are you going?" "Home. I've had enough. I hate England." "Hate England?" It was…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“Every crime like this needs someone like me to look away and say nothing.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“Not everyone can be rich,' Peter went on. 'Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“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…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“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…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“Like everything perfect, he set up a ferocious pain inside me -- a flickering, griping sort of pain, because nothing as marvelous…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“When Titus speaks, I can hear every word. For me, that's like when the optician slides home the right lens and all…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“His heart cannoned like a billiard ball off some green wall of his innards.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“Despite appearances, Sym, Love is not a four-letter word.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“The fictional exploits of buccaneering men had lost their magic for him. Besides, there were other pirates on view in Tilbury that…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“Don't struggle too hard to understand people, Sym. They're hideously complicated. Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

What people don't understand, they laugh at.

— Geraldine McCaughrean

It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“We built that Wendy House our own selves, for Wendy! And you can't keep a Wendy out of her own Wendy House!”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“You aren't stupid, Lillian,' said Uncle Victor, smiling and shaking his head, 'but sometimes the things you do are.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“Tell me a story,' demanded Fireflyer. 'Why? Do you eat them, too, then?' 'Only the ohs and ayes and ees and oos.…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“The richer you are, I've worked out, the smaller your telephone and the bigger your telephoto lens.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“The gods never meant you to live forever, so why spoil they life they did give you? Is a rainbow any less…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“These things happen. It is not the end of the world.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean