Lighthouse Island Quotes

“Once she had found a box full of e-books and took one of them apart to see if there were some way it had stored books inside it, but there was nothing inside but things called components. A teacher explained that they didn’t work anymore because the books that were supposed to appear on them had to be sent from a cloud that no longer existed. It didn’t matter. There were so few clouds anyway in the blazing vacant sky.”
― Paulette Jiles, Lighthouse Island

“It is the fate of all authors to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.” And”
― Paulette Jiles, Lighthouse Island

“Nadia listened in perfect, ratlike silence.”
― Paulette Jiles, Lighthouse Island