Lost Boy Quotes

“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

“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

“All children grow up, or they die, or both. All children, except one.”
― Christina Henry, 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.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“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

“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

“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?”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I hate Peter Pan.”
― Christina Henry, 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.”
― Christina Henry, 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.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“It would always be Peter and me, like we were in the beginning.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy

“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 earth.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“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

“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

“I didn't know how to explain to him that for all that I still looked young, I had been feeling old. The years had passed, so many of them, and they were starting to wear on me. After a while it wasn't fun to always feel like you had to have fun. -Jamie”
― Christina Henry, 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.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“My grief couldn`t overhelm me anymore because it was a part of me forever, all the names, all the faces and all the boys that I hadn`t protected from Peter. All the boys and one girl.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“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

“I was suddenly sorry I'd grown, even if it was only a little, and wished I could be similar again and that it was just Peter and me, running and climbing and laughing, back when the island was ours”
― 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

“It crashed over me all at once, the truth I’d been pretending wasn’t there. I was growing up. I was growing up, and I was so afraid.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“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? -Jamie”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“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

“If I'm 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

“I curse you, Jamie. I curse you to live forever on this island, but as a grown-up. You’ll never be a boy again, but you’ll never grow old and die either. If you’re hurt you’ll always survive. The island won’t let you go, and the island will keep you alive because I say so. And so you’ll never forget me and my curse, I leave my mark on you.”
He raised the sword, and then my right hand was gone.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook