Island of Dragons Quotes

“I don't like having the power to take away someone's death. It's too much responsibility.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“I don't want to die," he whimpered.
"You won't," said Alex. "You're magic, remember? An you're a cat so..."
"Oh, that's right," said Fox, panting in relief. "Phew. Nine live.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“The squirrelicorns contained their horror like professionals and confirmed that they understood completely.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“And you have taught me your different voices. The voice you used was not your voice of truth.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“[Redacted] didn't hate you. He said you were misunderstood. A misfit, just like us.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“And even when all appears lost,’ said Simber, ‘you must fight with everything you have inside you, all the way until the bitter end.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“But Liam was already dead.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“I’m suddenly worried for my own safety,” said Alex. “Thanks, Henry.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“He still didn't know precisely what he'd done that was so funny, but he was enjoying this new feeling inside him - the feeling that he was not only useful, but also that he was finally part of something good...”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“It's pure goodness to laugh again.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“Ashort”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“They kissed again. And then everything went black and Alex slumped to the floor.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“But what about Spike and Henry? Where are they?”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“Panther, whom he thought was quite striking,”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“ornery”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“running on fumes,”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“uncontrollable”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“dreamland,”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“(Reprise)”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“heartened,”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“humility,”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“solidarity”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“We will survive somehow. Dragons always do.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“Mr. Today,”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“Pan’s secret remained a mystery, perhaps to be solved another day by a very different pair of young magical twins.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“Alex sighed. He was amazed by all that had taken place. Amazed by all he had accomplished since that day in the Commons of Quill when he had been sentenced to die. Little did Alex know back then that he’d see his brother again. Little did he know that life was just about to begin, and that it hadn’t ended for him, after all. Little did he know, on the bus to the Death Farm, that the blue-eyed girl connected to him by a rusty chain would become his fierce friend. That Samheed, whom Alex never liked in school, would become one of his closest confidants. And that Meghan, Alex’s best friend from early childhood, would die fighting for a land no one in Quill could have dreamed up . . . except for a man named Mr. Today.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“Lhasa showed a vicious side of her no one had ever seen before, and she bared her teeth and began biting pirates in the bum very hard at every turn, and dodging their swipes at her.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“Find a nice girl to rub some of this on your shoulders. It’ll feel better in no time.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“But he was convinced it was the right decision.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons

“Suddenly he felt strange for saying it, as if he were admitting something that made him very vulnerable.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Dragons