The Never King Quotes
"But they always return broken, with varying degrees of sanity intact."
"I don’t want to go mad. I like who I am, for the most part."
"Please, for the love of all the gods, I don’t want to end up like my mother."
"I spent the summer of my thirteenth year living with Mom in a rundown house that was crammed between two warring neighbors, one a prude and the other a prostitute."
"I don’t think it was the freewheeling sex so much as it was the freedom."
"Baby girl, I don’t do boyfriends. Men are my toys and I play with them regularly."
"Before Pan, before Neverland, I thought my fate was to go mad just like my mother and that nothing could stop it from happening."
"Most men don’t realize this, but us girls, we have toolboxes too. Ours aren’t stuffed with hammers and wrenches and screwdrivers. We have these."
"If you don’t hold yourself on a pedestal, then who will?"
"If you are not the most interesting person you know, then you’re doing it wrong."
"Everyone on Neverland is older than they look."
"You think you can keep your dick in your pants tonight? Doubtful."
"I wonder if our dear sister is really doing what she claims to be doing with the Darlings."
"Peter Pan will fail because I will make him fail. He will crumble and then I will claim his shadow and the throne will rightfully be mine."
"This is a place of wild debauchery, a carnival ride that you never want to exit."
"I could get lost in this world and never want to be found."
"This is always where I’m most in my body, when someone else is touching it, when my nerves are awake."
"Why do we care if she fucks a Lost Boy anyway?"
"It’s the inherited memories I need. Not the pretty little Darling cunt."
"The buzz has worn off and there is only the pulsing need in my pussy now, the urge to be released."
"In this world, and in yours, if you’re not the monster, then you’re the prey."
"And out of all of it tonight, that is what makes me feel most powerful."
"Too many rules have already been broken tonight."
"I am untethered from caution and decency. Only the violence remains."
"But I am nothing if not fair. I only give what I get."
"If the Darling hadn’t stolen my shadow, I wouldn’t have to steal Darlings."
"I’ve found that on every island in the chain, the one that’s claimed the Death Shadow is always called the Dark One."
"Because in this world, and in yours, if you’re not the monster, then you’re the prey."
"The lagoon, the swimming souls that looked like mermaids, and the house glowing with life."
"These brutal, vicious boys might have used me in the vilest way possible, but in that moment, I finally felt free."
"I’ve never felt as safe as I do in this moment and I don’t know how to feel about that."
"Even the mighty oak believes she is strong until a man comes along with an ax to chop her down."
"All men are born with an ax in their hands, Darling. To take the measure of a man, you just have to pay attention to how he wields it."
"I wasn’t thinking straight. Sometimes I act before I think."
"Maybe that’s what love really is, at the heart of it—choosing the pain with the pleasure."