Captain-hook Quote by Christina Henry

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

— Christina Henry

“I only wanted them near me because I loved them. Though, of course, it was because I loved them that Peter had to take…

— Christina Henry

“All children grow up, or they die, or both. All children, except one.”

— Christina Henry

“They all thought they were special, but only I was. I was first and none of them could take that from me. I was…

— Christina Henry

“Sometimes at night, when the nightmare clung to me, I wondered if Peter’s assurances that I would never grow up were only assurances that…

— 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

“He’d been around the island for a while, and I’m sorry to say that being bashed around in Battle and at raids had done…

— Christina Henry

“Because Peter promised them adventures and happiness and then took them away to the island where they died. They weren’t forever young, unless dying…

— Christina Henry

“It was Peter’s island, Peter who’d brought us here, and in the back of every boy’s mind was some form of the same thought—…

— 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

“ 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

“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