Top 11 Quotes by Geraldine McCaughrean

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!

Beautiful, Strong, Clever

Geraldine McCaughrean (2010). “Peter Pan in Scarlet”, p.97, Oxford University Press - Children

It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves you. Even just shows an interest. Even someone who doesn't exist, or isn't yours. No, no! They don't even have to love you! They just have to be there to love! Target for your arrows. Magnetic Pole to drag on your compass needle and stop it spinning and tell you where you're heading and...Someone to soak up all the yearning. That's what I think.

Geraldine McCaughrean

Love You, Thinking, Arrows

[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.

Geraldine McCaughrean

Broken, Listening, Hook

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.

Geraldine McCaughrean

People, Despair, Unhappy

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

Geraldine McCaughrean

Real, Needed, Wanted

I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.

Geraldine McCaughrean

Hate, Thinking, I Hate

There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.

Geraldine McCaughrean

Clever, Roaming Around, Labyrinth