Christina Henry Quotes

Interesting' meant that you attracted the notice of men who would hurt you to possess whatever they found 'interesting' about you.

You came, you saw, you burned everything to the ground.

Alice dreamed of blood. Blood on her hands and under her feet, blood in her mouth and pouring from her eyes. The room was filled with it.

He was definitely taking his bodyguard duties seriously tonight. He gave off a take-one-step-closer-and-I-will-show-you-Armageddon vibe.

Out here the world was bright and sharp and full of hungry mouths waiting to eat her up.

There is more to you than you know. Remember that.

You're only a mouse if you let them make you one.

I have seen plenty of humanity. The vast majority would not help their fellow neighbor unless forced to do so at gunpoint, Nathaniel said.

Thorns pricked at her skin everywhere, poked at her face

The world was abruptly sharp and clear, too clear, and too alive. It was terrible beyond words. The

Where's home, my Alice?" Hatcher said. "Where's home? We don't have a home, you and I.

She didn't have to be Cheshire's ideal of a Magician or Hatcher's ideal of a lover or her parents' ideal of a daughter. She could be Alice.

So she should not wish to undo the past but learn to accept its consequences, and remember that not all consequences were evil.

That's what love is. When you love someone you're responsible for them, and they you.

Most men give a girl a ring, you know, not threaten them with murder." Hatcher

But I'm coming with you. Until you catch the soul-sucking thing, I'm glue and you're ... something that needs to be glued

There was comfort in ignorance, in thinking the world a certain way and not knowing any different.

If you let the grief in, it might consume you.

In the Old City there were very few ways for women to stay alive, and all of them involved a man.

That was the trouble with not being right in the head. You couldn't always tell if your eyes were telling the truth.

can't save everybody. But we can save somebody.

He was haunted, same as she was, except he didn't know the name of his ghost.

What about Alice? Did she have a happy ending?

Gabriel is my bodyguard, " I said stiffly.
J.B. snorted. "He wants something to do with your body, but it ain't guarding that he's thinking about.

She must start believing in impossible things, for impossible things kept appearing before her eyes.

If you go chasing your freedom your fate will only follow you there and force you back.

There's nowhere for us to go back to. We can go forward. We can find our way out.

She was exhausted, and had spent some time breathing smoke and poison.

I am not a pyromaniac," I said. "I only set things on fire because it's expedient