Red Queen Quotes

“There were monsters in the night but there were monsters in the day too, and monsters inside people who smiled and showed you all their teeth like they were nice. There were monsters inside Alice, but they only had power if she gave it to them, and other things had power too, like the laughter of children enjoying a picnic together and like the love she had for this terrible, wonderful, imperfect man, this man who hid inside the body of a wolf because he thought that was where he belonged.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“The world gobbles us and chews us and swallows us,” Hatcher said, in that uncanny way he had of reading her thoughts. “I think happy endings must be accidents.”
“But we hope for them all the same,” Alice said. She looked sadly at the remains of those hopeful faces. Above all, we hope not to die in terror.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“So she should not wish to undo the past but learn to accept its consequences, and remember that not all consequences were evil.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“What about Alice? Did she have a happy ending?”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“There were monsters in the night but there were monsters in the day too, and monsters inside people who smiled and showed you all their teeth like they were nice.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“She didn’t have to be Cheshire’s ideal of a Magician or Hatcher’s ideal of a lover or her parents’ ideal of a daughter. She could be Alice.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“I was mad once too, but it doesn’t seem to have taken properly.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“...“I think happy endings must be accidents.”
“But we hope for them all the same,” Alice said.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“She remembered a story one of her governesses told her, about a little girl who went into a house that wasn’t hers. She sat in three chairs and tasted three bowls of porridge and rolled in three beds. And for being too curious (and, Alice thought, very rude) the little girl was eaten up by the bears who lived there.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“Adults, Alice reflected, could learn something from the way children bounced back from horror like little rubber balls.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“I want to rest, “Alice said, and she meant it with all her heart. “Once I lived in a cage, and before that a different kind of cage. I tried to break free from the first one and they put me in one that was much, much worse. All I want is to find a place I have dreamed of, a little cottage in a green field by a lake.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“A bear that would turn into a prince, she thought, and then smiled sadly to herself. Her prince was not a bear, but a madman. Alice had learned that you could not choose whom to love. If royalty appeared out of nowhere and offered her a future, she would have to turn away from it, because Alice could never love any other but the one with grey eyes and bloodstained hands.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“No man in the New City could love her as Hatcher did—of that Alice was certain. It was deep and all-consuming but somehow never suffocating. It was unselfish. It did not ask for anything and yet he made no secret of his need. There was no one in the world like Hatcher, and if she hadn’t been mad, there would be no Hatcher for her.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“... for happiness and joy are hard things to come by when you have seen the monster in the dark.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“The world gobbles us and chews us and swallows us,” Hatcher said, in that uncanny way he had of reading her thoughts. “I think happy endings must be accidents.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“Your man is her creature now, and he’ll never belong to himself again.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“The night is alive, Alice.’ Hatcher said. ’And so am I.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“The night is alive and so am I.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“No man in the New City could love her as Hatcher did— of that Alice was certain. It was deep and all-consuming but somehow never suffocating. It was unselfish. It did not ask for anything and yet he made no secret of his need. There was no one in the world like Hatcher, and if she hadn’t been mad, there would be no Hatcher for her.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“The night is alive, Alice," Hatcher said. "And so am I.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“The night before, being alone seemed a frightening prospect. Now it was relaxing. She could stop pretending to her companion that she was fine when she was most decidedly not.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“When I was a child I feared the shadows in the corners and the creaking under the bed, and my mother or my nurserymaid would always tell me not to be silly, that there was nothing really there. Of course there was nothing really there, because the monsters were out in the wild world, and nobody told me to watch out for them.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“Witches can be good?” Alfhild asked. This seemed a total reversal of the world she understood.
“Sometimes,” Alice said.
And mad Hatchers can be gentle fathers. The world is not made of things that are black and white but shades of gray, or (thinking of the Red Queen), shades of blood.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“... and the crown on her head felt heavy.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“Occasionally it seemed that her body was actively working against her progress.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“Sometimes the lure of thought and memory was too much for her, a tug that compelled her away from the world and into her own head.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen