The Island Quotes

“Perhaps they are worse than evil—they are bored,” Petra said.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“She reflected that the Mad Max movies had been skillfully edited to erase the actual tedium of driving through outback Australia.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“She was her mother’s favorite saying come to life. The cure for everything is salt water: tears, sweat, or the sea.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“Perhaps they are worse than evil - they are bored.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“Evil little bastard. They can give you a nasty scratch. The koalas, I mean, not your kids!”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“Children were fishing lines entangling you in their cruelties and wants and sticky fingers and dramas and disappointments. The mommy industrial complex made you think it was all going to be hugs and campfires, and peewee soccer practices, and that was all bullshit.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“Everything is the path.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“but the beast was man, had always been man.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“Your body is a blade sharpened by tears”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“Her father had grown up hunting possums and squirrels in the red maple and dogwoods of McCreary County, Kentucky, right on the Tennessee line.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“She knew if he pulled the trigger, she wouldn’t feel a thing. She wouldn’t hear anything. Her life would instantly cut to black.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“It was well before sunrise.
But all you had to do was wait.
Patience was a weapon.
If you waited long enough, the dawn would come.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“Fire became an enemy only if you couldn't move.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“Kids have the gift of sleep. They were so peaceful, they were part of a tomorrow when all of this was over.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“She was composed. Calm. As calm as the sea, the grass, these old trees. She floated in the nowness of everything.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“She was her mother's favorite saying come to life. The cure for everything is salt water: tears, sweat, or the sea.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“There were no monsters on Dutch Island, but the beast was man, had always been man.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“Why do you stay here? What's here, Rory?"
"Peace, quiet, birds. Lots of birds.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“I am Trouble with a capital T. I'm Death with a capital D. If you give me any problems at all, I won't hesitate to kill you. Do you understand?”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“Your body is a longbow carved from hickory, her father said.
Your body is a blade sharpened by tears, her mother said.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“It hadn't been love at first sight, but it was pretty damn close. He was so funny and charming and smart. All the books he'd read. All the stuff he knew.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“If you want to see sharks, I'd go to the port side. That's the left side for you landlubbers.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“No one confiscated the penknife. Which was lucky for Heather. Because two days later it would save her life.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“The cure for everything is salt water: tears, sweat, or the sea.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“Whoa, girlfriend! I was wondering if I was ever going to hear from you again. Pretty sure the hitchhiker killers or the spiders were going to get you.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island