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41 " Sometimes I thought that Peter couldn’t be hurt, and that was why he didn’t bother so much when others were, for he couldn’t understand their pain. "
― Christina Henry , Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
42 " 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? "
43 " A kiss can be made of magic too. I’d never known that. "
44 " It wasn’t such a terrible thing, then, growing up. "
45 " After all, she’d found it so unsafe to be a girl that she’d pretended to be a boy, "
46 " I think I fell in love with her then, when she pretended that everything was just the same as it had always been. "
47 " It was not natural for boys to stay boys forever. We were supposed to grow up, and have boys of our own, and teach them how to be men. "
48 " After awhile it wasn't fun to always feel like you had to have fun. "
49 " They all thought they were special in his eyes, while the only one who was special was me. Peter had picked me first, "