Classic Retelling Quotes

“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 I would die before such a thing happened. I wondered if that were better, to die before I became something withered and grey and not wanted.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“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— He could send me back, if he wanted.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“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 nothing very good for his brains.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“Pish-posh and poppycock!!" Croome grumbled.”
― Kevin Purdy

“I might have known. Nobody ever does want me. I might have known. It was too good to
be true. Dreams never last,” I sniffed, “I should have known that even you wouldn’t want
me.”
I plopped down on a nearby bench and tried to swallow my sobs. Matthew and Marilla
glanced at each other confused. Oh, why did I always let my hopes run away with me?
Nothing would ever change. Who would ever want a homely, emotional, sixteen year old?”
― Hannah Beth