Fiction Quote by 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 story lasted,…

— 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 too much…

— 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 the necessary…

— 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 can ALL…

— 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 not to…

— 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 fire around…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“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

“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

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

“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