Treasure Island!!! Quotes

“BOLDNESS
RESOLUTION
INDEPENDENCE
HORN-BLOWING”
― Sara Levine, Treasure Island!!!

“Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal. We can have pancakes.”
― Sara Levine, Treasure Island!!!

“Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book was doing something to me.”
― Sara Levine, Treasure Island!!!

“If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the side of the boat.”
― Sara Levine, Treasure Island!!!

“I knew very well what Lars meant when he praised me, and held me, and indicated through a caress that he liked me just the way I was; I knew, better than he knew himself, that he wanted to ensure he never be confronted with what, in his own personality, might need pruning or pushing or prodding, that behind every show of support he gave, for me here, for me now, there lurked a terrified refusal to acknowledge his own potential to grow.”
― Sara Levine, Treasure Island!!!

“A painful truth I’d learn later: you may be ready to grow, but you can’t fertilize friends and grow them with you.”
― Sara Levine, Treasure Island!!!