Island of Shipwrecks Quotes

“Life is very complicated. Filled with dreams and adventures, and disasters and broken hearts, too.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“Life is very complicated,” he said with a little laugh. “Filled with dreams and adventures, and disasters and broken hearts, too.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“you had so many chances. So many.” He grew quiet as the waves of emotion softened. “And I never let go of you. How could I?”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“What’s a carnival?” asked Henry. “It’s a place with fun rides and cotton candy,” Lani said wisely, for she’d read it in a book. “Candy made of cotton? That’s like eating your shirt. Disgusting!” said Crow, and the others agreed.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“Octavia did what she could to help him hear once more, going so far as to take his head apart and clean it out to see if that would help him make a bit more sense. Inside she found quite a lot of cobwebs, a tiny mouse that was slightly larger than Kitten, three honeybees, and a rather delicate butterfly cocoon attached to a twig.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“We’ll do the only thing we can do,” he said, his voice tired and defeated. “Try not to die.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“Her whole life was dedicated to hurting as many people as possible.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“private thoughts and feelings and actions were strewn out across the endless floor like the scattered piles of books. Stories about his parents.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“-But now we worry - what if we will never die?-

-Would that be a bad thing?-

-For me, yes. I would not want to go on and on forever. Would you? Think about it.-”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“What do you think about when you close your eyes?” she asked. Alex looked at her, her silky orange eyes catching light from the fire, her hair falling against her cheek, her lips soft and full. “You really want to know?” She nodded. “Yeah.” “I think about you,”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“Meghan Gets Mad”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“bounded toward him, and screamed in his face, just like”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“shuffled”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“Panic”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“hindrance”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“His dear friend Meghan, his freckled classmate and fellow Unwanted, was dead.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“Beside her was a large gray wolf.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“I suppose. I mean, we were very close. Or . . . or I thought we were.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“We can only save the ones we can save.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“A moment later, Simber rose up out of the water and shook himself dry as the Artiméans greeted him with great enthusiasm. Brushing off the praise, Simber simply nodded his greetings and took his usual place hovering over the back of the”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“She trailed off and clutched at her heart now, as if it were being torn out. “For what purpose? Wasn’t giving me up at the Purge enough? Did she have to come back into my life, only to betray me a second time? What absolute heartlessness, which is just so typical of someone loyal to Quill! Is there any purpose great enough to cause someone to turn her back on her family for the sake of it?”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“It’s true I’ve made mistakes; I’ve already admitted that. But I’ve learned from them.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“only friend in the entire world was dead.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“because he’d actually seen her die, which somehow made it more real.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“Liam had given his entire self over to the power of Justine - the power she had to take away a best friend without anyone objecting. The power to make a person give up everything and obey, because obeying was easy, and standing against her seemed impossible.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks

“Is there any purpose great enough to cause someone to turn her back on her family for the sake of it?”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Shipwrecks