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Ashling

Isobelle Carmody

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.”

“Fools blow air out of their mouths as often as their bums, and either way it causes a stink and comes to nothing.”

“You cannot defeat the sea - it is too great and too uncaring. You can only surrender to its power...All things that exist live, though maybe they do not measure life as we do. [Chapter 35, page 305]”

“Sometimes it is hard to know what the truth is. And sometimes truth is pain. Easier to hide the truth and make a secret of it, than to face it. -Chapter 22, page 254”

“It would be a simple matter if lives were lived by hindsight. There is much we would not begin, if we could see how it would end”

“It would be a little late in deciding now that we would not live our lives by the whimsical wisdoms of futuretellers, don't you think? [Chapter 33, page 386]”

“If I have learned one thing in the time I have spent here, is that sooner or later everything is linked to everything else. [ Chapter 19, p210]”

“If I have learned one thing in the time I have spent here, is that sooner or later everything is linked to everything else. -Domick. Chapter 19, p210”

“I would never exhange safety for freedom, regardless or the danger. I had the right to risk my life as I chose. -Chapter 21, page 247”

“I was suddenly stricken with a feeling of black despair, hopelessly muddled by what was right and wrong. Nothing seemed clear cut; we did evil in the name of good, and good was done in the name of evil. [Chapter 27, page 306]”

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Book Keywords:

fools, uncontrollable, ocean, obernewtyn, domick, future, link, freedom, good-and-evil, truth, wisdom, rushton, lies, existence, free-will, danger

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