Blue Dolphins Quotes

#1. Now, suddenly, I was the kind of girl who felt true physical pain when asked to put down a book at the dinner table, who asked friends over and ignored them to finish Island of the Blue Dolphins for the fifth time.

Lizzie Skurnick

#2. More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home.

Scott O'Dell

#3. Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt to read those books. I want to write books with the same power to transport readers into another time and place.

Jennifer Armstrong

#4. I am not exuding anything," said Holly through gritted teeth.
Orion tapped her shoulder. "I beg to differ. You're exuding right now, a wonderful aura. It's pastel blue with little dolphins.

Eoin Colfer

#5. Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#6. I reserve my emotional energy exclusively for people. Things can be fixed. Things can be replaced. People cannot.

Alan C. Fox

#7. Do but observe our grim philosophers that are perpetually beating their brains on knotty subjects, and for the most part you'll find them grown old before they are scarcely young. And

Erasmus

#8. Sunny, tell me truthfully, what are your intentions toward Talon? (Selena) What are you? His mom? I promise I'll respect him in the morning. (Sunshine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. Learn from this mistake, for a mistake it was. You failed. The next time you have an opportunity for happiness, you must take it.

James Maxwell

#10. Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

Leyla Zana

#11. It won't take me a minute to kill you. - Felix

Donna Galanti

#12. Capital is process, and that is that.

David Harvey

#13. The vast blue ocean is waiting for her, and this is only the beginning of her story.

Gill Lewis