The Island Quotes

“Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would be revealed by the pictures that were missing or never even taken at all, not the ones that had been so carefully framed or packed away neatly in an envelope.”
― Victoria Hislop, The Island

“After the endless disappointing cups of Nescafé, served as though the tasteless dissolving granules of instant coffee were a delicacy, Alexis felt no cup of coffee had ever tasted as powerful and delicious as this.
It seemed that nobody had the heart to tell the Greeks that Nescafé was no longer a novelty – it was this old-fashioned thick and treacly fluid that everyone, including her, craved.”
― Victoria Hislop, The Island

“the weekly market. In short, he had done everything he humanly could, but the population of Spinalonga always wanted more and Elpida was not sure that her husband had the energy to fulfil their expectations. She worried about him constantly. He was in his late fifties, like her, but his health was failing. Leprosy was”
― Victoria Hislop, The Island

“This was not the start of a short trip to deliver supplies. It was the beginning of a one-way journey to start a new life. Life on a leper colony. Life on Spinalonga.”
― Victoria Hislop, The Island

“treading”
― Victoria Hislop, The Island

“left cheek bore the clear impression of two”
― Victoria Hislop, The Island

“Her driving force was the belief that education was not a means to some nebulous end but had intrinsic value, and made the children better people.”
― Victoria Hislop, The Island

“the priest just as he was about to begin a service or to search houses as the dancing”
― Victoria Hislop, The Island

“Eleni”
― Victoria Hislop, The Island

“a tip-off about the whereabouts”
― Victoria Hislop, The Island

“spilled out like a volcanic eruption. Wardrobe”
― Victoria Hislop, The Island