The Islanders Quotes

“Taken alone, they didn’t mean much, those two words: another, and time. But together—oh, the promises they held.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Islanders

“suddenly hits Maggie that there’s only a certain amount of happiness in the universe, and if you take what you think is your fair share, somebody else might have to give up theirs.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Islanders

“We’re none of us exactly who we say we are,” Dorothy said finally.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Islanders

“she saw the invisible shackles so many women wore. Even pretty Jessica, with her workout clothes and her cozy relationship with her MIL, wore shackles. She just might not have admitted it to herself. But Lu admitted it. She felt her shackles tightening. She felt them in the set of Jeremy’s jaw. She felt them in the way Nancy’s eyes pinched together when she disapproved of something Lu had done or (more likely) when she disapproved of something that she hadn’t done. She felt them when Chase had a nightmare and she stroked his hair until he fell asleep. When she prepared to creep out of the room and his little hand reached out and clutched at hers—even in sleep trying to keep her there.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Islanders

“How did I forgive you? How did I stand you? It was my job to stand you. And I forgave you because that’s what parents do.” Joy was hovering somewhere between relief and despair. “What do I do, though, Mom? I feel like I have to be so careful, but I’m never sure what I’m being careful of.” “You wait her out,” said Joy’s mother. “You wait her out, and she’ll come back to you soon enough. You’ll see.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Islanders

“People didn’t wear lipstick in the daytime on Block Island—they wore Banana Boat lip balm, or nothing at all. They wore flip-flops, they wore beach cover-ups or shorts and tank tops, and they wore a light coating of sand.”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Islanders

“It suddenly hits Maggie that there's only a certain amount of happiness in the universe, and if you take what you think is your fair share, somebody else might have to give up theirs”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Islanders

“What had Lu's mother ever done to Lu, except for at one time know her so intimately that Lu couldn't bear to expose her to all of the humiliations involved in her growing up?”
― Meg Mitchell Moore, The Islanders