Candle Island Quotes

“There’s something sad about everyone, Lucy. Don’t ever think otherwise.”
― Lauren Wolk, Candle Island

“I couldn’t imagine it. “Surely she wouldn’t believe such a thing.” My mother ran her hand over my hair. “Sometimes things hurt whether they’re true or not.”
― Lauren Wolk, Candle Island

“The music was, as before, a song I didn't know but found familiar, the words in a language I didn't speak but still understood. All of it as colorful as a painting. Cobalt blue. Prussian blue. Venetian red. Emerald green.

He was singing a story. A sad one that suddenly became something else and then something else again, the colors changing as the story did, from a radiant magenta to some kind of violet. And then a gold I rarely heard.”
― Lauren Wolk, Candle Island

“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
― Lauren Wolk, Candle Island

“None of it would be worth the paint if I couldn’t convey that silence. That aloneness. They would be my challenge. I opened my eyes and began, very slowly, to paint what silence looks like.”
― Lauren Wolk, Candle Island