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Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook QUOTES

Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook QUOTES

1 " It’s not such a wonderful thing, to be young,” I said. “It’s heartless, and selfish.”

“But, oh, so free,” Nod said sadly. “So free when you have no worries or cares. "

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

2 " All children grow up, or they die, or both. All children, except one. "

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

3 " They all thought they were special, but only I was. I was first and none of them could take that from me. I was first and best and last and always. "

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

4 " 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 when you were young kept you that way for always. "

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

5 " 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 things. "

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

6 " 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

7 " I didn’t believe him at first, about the island, though.”

“I didn’t either,”I said. “I don’t know that anyone does. It sounds like a fantastic lie.”

“It is a fantastic lie,” Sal said, and her face was very earnest. “This isn’t a wonderful place for boys to play and have adventures and stay young for always. It’s a killing place, and we’re all just soldiers in Peter’s war. "

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

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

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

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

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

10 " 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

11 " 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 mistakes had consequences? Peter made mistakes all the time— he was thoughtless; he hurt people. But it never troubled him, not for a moment. He forgot all about it in an instant. That was being a boy. "

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

12 " 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 muttered, looking away. "

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

13 " Peter had just forgotten, the way that Peter did forget about anything that wasn’t right in front of him at the moment. "

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

14 " Come on, Jamie, follow me. Follow me and you’ll never grow up!”
I took one step, and then another, and then I was inside and the earth seemed to close all around me. "

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

15 " It’s not as easy as you’d think, burning a dead creature. Flesh and skin want to cook and crisp and char rather than ignite. "

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

16 " 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

17 " And it made me love him a little less, and the memory of that smile hurt deep down in the place where I kept all my secrets and my sorrows. "

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

18 " And then I was alone, and glad that he was gone. I'd never been glad at Peter's absence before, and something inside me seemed to shift. My legs hurt like fire for a minute, and then it was over, and I distinctly felt that I was taller than I've been a moment before. "

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

19 " Was this, I wondered, what it felt like to be a grown-up? Did you always feel the weight of things on you, your cares pressing you down like a burden you could never shake? No wonder Peter could fly. He had no worries to weight him to the earth. "

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

20 " If I am a villain, it's because Peter made me one, because Peter needs to be the shining sun that all the world turns around. Peter needed to be a hero, so somebody needed to be a villain. "

― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook