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Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

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World Women Mistake Authority Wrong

Book:The Mermaid

Source: The Mermaid

“What's a savage?" Amelia said. "Someone who doesn't live as you do? Someone who doesn't have gaslight ans hows and cobblestoned streets?" Levi took a breath and tried again. "These are simple people who haven't been exposed to-" "And why is simple something that needs to be fixed? Why must all people everywhere be cast in the same mold?" Amelia said.”

People Simple Savages

Book:The Mermaid

Source: The Mermaid

“And I told you it was my choice", [she] said. "But I was too foolish to understand what I was choosing.”

Wise Words Right In The Feels You Understand When You Re Older

Book:The Mermaid

Source: The Mermaid

“All she'd found was that women spent a great deal of time saying they were please when they were not, similing when they were not happy, and pretending their anger and frustation did not exist”

Women Anger Pretending Frustation

Book:The Mermaid

Source: The Mermaid

“Most women faked half their lives daily, pretending to have their work and their family and their health completely under control, moving through the world with just enough makeup and effortless shampoo-commercial hair. They were the ones wearing beautiful cream-colored knitted sweaters in white rooms on their Instagram pages. They were the ones spouting corny philosophical sayings and talking about their many blessings. Meanwhile, they were taking prescription drugs just to stand up straight in the morning and their husbands were on their fourth affair with someone from their workplace.”

Women Society Problem

Book:Good Girls Don’t Die

Source: Good Girls Don’t Die

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

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Book:Alice

Source: Alice

“One thing Red had learned from years of reading and movie watching was that people were far scarier than any disease or zombie or alien or face-eating monster.”

Human Nature Apocalypse

Book:The Girl in Red

Source: The Girl in Red

“...it was never the Event - illness, asteroid, nuclear war, whatever - that was the problem. It was what people did after. And people always reduced to their least human denominators when things went bad.”

Humanity Human Nature Survival Apocalypse

Book:The Girl in Red

Source: The Girl in Red

“When he'd smiled at me and told me we would have adventures, I thought we would be friends always, that it would just be Peter and me, like brothers. But now I saw - and it was so strange that after all this time I finally did see - that I wasn't enough for him, had never been enough. I didn't mean anything to him, and not even I was special if he could keep a secret like this. 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 sorrows.”

Secret Special Smile Peter Pan Lost Boy Christina Henry

Book:Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“Girls like us, we have to save ourselves. Nobody else will get you home.”

Home Girl Power Save Yourself

Book:Looking Glass

Source: Looking Glass

“Humans often valued what they should not, she reflected, and most often they did not value what was right before their eyes.”

Humans Reflection Value

Book:The Mermaid

Source: The Mermaid

“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.”

Growing Up Jamie Peter Pan Captain Hook

Book:Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“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.”

Young Growing Up Selfish Free Heartless Peter Pan No Worries Lost Boys Captain Hook Never Grow Up

Book:Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“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.”

Love Children Death Jealousy Retelling Peter Pan Take Lost Boys Captain Hook

Book:Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“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.”

Death Peter Pan Adventures Forever Young False Promises Lost Boys Captain Hook Never Grow Up

Book:Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“All children grow up, or they die, or both. All children, except one.”

Children Die Peter Pan Grow Up Lost Boys Captain Hook Never Grow Up

Book:Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“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.”

Lost Die Retelling Peter Pan Lost Boys Captain Hook Never Grow Up Wondered Classic Retelling

Book:Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“I huffed out a deep breath. “It’s something huge, isn’t it?” Beezle nodded. “Yup.” There was a sound of several limbs splashing in the water. “Is it all squishy and tentacly?” “Yup.” “I hate my life,” I said, and as I turned I conjured a ball of nightfire and threw it.”

Humor Action

Book:Black Night

Source: Black Night

“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.”

Mind Scared Thought Retelling Peter Pan Island Lost Boys Captain Hook Classic Retelling

Book:Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“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.”

Death Civilized Fight Peter Pan Civilized Beings Lost Boys Captain Hook

Book:Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“Your magic is there, if only you would let it be instead of fighting it all the time.”

Magic Believe In Yourself Save Yourself

Book:Looking Glass

Source: Looking Glass

“How do you know?" Red repeated each word slowly, enunciating every consonant. "If the CDC brewed up something in their lab and it accidentally was let loose in the world, do you think they would tell you?”

Secret Plague Epidemic Epidemiology Cdc Cough

Book:The Girl in Red

Source: The Girl in Red

“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.”

Battle Retelling Peter Pan Island Brains Fights Fairy Tale Retellings Captain Hook Classic Retelling Raids

Book:Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“Then she did the thing that she always did, ever since the moment when she realized she was about to have a baby and that her child would come first. She pretended she wasn't scared.”

Parenting Motherhood Single Mother

Book:The House That Horror Built

Source: The House That Horror Built

“I’ll meet you tomorrow morning at ten in your office, and explain everything. In the meantime, go home and get some sleep.” “I have a meeting with McConnell and Baroja tomorrow at ten A.M. to review some procedures,” he said. Now, that was the J.B. I knew. Never mind the demon attack; procedures needed reviewing.”

Humor Paranormal Demons Burocracia

Book:Black Wings

Source: Black Wings

“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.”

Special Best Always First Peter Pan Last Favorite Lost Boys Captain Hook

Book:Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“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.”

Growing Up Guilt Mistakes Child Adult Peter Pan Boy Lost Boys Captain Hook Never Grow Up

Book:Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“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.”

Love Hurt Memory Deceit Secrets Peter Pan Captain Hook

Book:Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“She should make some light. Sometimes she could do that, if she concentrated hard enough, though the magic place inside her often seemed to shift around, like it was trying to hide from her.”

Light Magic

Book:Looking Glass

Source: Looking Glass

“I don't belong to you ... You thought if I married you that I would, but I don't. I don't belong to any man ... I only belong to myself. But belonging to myself doesn't mean I don't love you or that I don't want to stand beside you.”

Love Whole Marriage Independence Woman Belong

Book:The Mermaid

Source: The Mermaid

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