The Map to Everywhere (The Map to Everywhere, #1) QUOTES

2 " Then he looked at Marrill with a frown of concern. “By chance have you felt the urge to repeat everything people say to you, backward?” Yesterday she’d have thought it was the oddest question she’d ever been asked. Now she wasn’t so sure. “No? "

― Carrie Ryan , The Map to Everywhere (The Map to Everywhere, #1)

4 " It’s in books,” he explained, as if that made it all make sense. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Map to Everywhere (The Map to Everywhere, #1)

6 " What are you doing here?” he mumbled.
“Um, you asked me to follow you?” Marrill said. The wizard chuckled. “Not you,” he said, continuing downward. “I meant the Promenade Deck.” He waved his hand over his shoulder at the floor they’d just passed. “You’ll have to watch out for that one—it likes to walk off. Best to stay away from it. Never know where it’ll end up; sometimes it up and heads to another ship.”
“Um…” Her words faltered. “How do I know which one’s the Promenade Deck?” He glanced up at her, forehead furrowed. “It’s the one that moves. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Map to Everywhere (The Map to Everywhere, #1)

8 " You can’t fix a problem until you know what it is,” the wizard said "

― Carrie Ryan , The Map to Everywhere (The Map to Everywhere, #1)

10 " No, I’m not generally okay with exploding,” she told him. He raised an eyebrow. “Few are,” he said wistfully, as if he had personal experience in the matter. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Map to Everywhere (The Map to Everywhere, #1)

12 " How many times had it been made clear to Fin that he was alone in this world? That no one else could help him, care for him, be there for him? Every night on the edge of sleep, he closed his yes and thought about finding his mother or learning where he came from or coming downstairs and having the Parsnickles pick him up and spin him around and treat him like a normal kid in a normal family.
This despair was nothing new. Every single day, he faced the fear that he would be this way forever and nothing would change, and every single day he beat that fear. He'd bitten down sadness before. He would do it again. Every single day, until he did find his mother, and then he would be a normal kid. He had to be. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Map to Everywhere (The Map to Everywhere, #1)

14 " The wizard now looked straight at him. “No, young man,” he said. “Whatever’s wrong with you, there is no magic about it. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Map to Everywhere (The Map to Everywhere, #1)

16 " Io ho bisogno di te, Fin. E non solo perchè mi serve il tuo aiuto. Voglio che tu stia con me. (...). Ho bisogno di te perchè sei mio amico.
- Marrill "

― Carrie Ryan , The Map to Everywhere (The Map to Everywhere, #1)

18 " It should have been soothing, but Fin wasn’t used to quiet. Where he was from, quiet meant either something was very wrong, or it was about to be. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Map to Everywhere (The Map to Everywhere, #1)

20 " What d’ya think?” Fin asked, holding out a silver pepper shaker. Marrill scrunched her nose, considering the object. “Definitely something alive,” she finally pronounced. For the past several hours, the two of them had been playing a game of Drop Things into the Pirate Stream and Guess What They’ll Turn Into. So far they’d watched a shoe turn into a fish (boring), a towel morph into a small raft of tiger-roses (not boring), and a cup disappear into a high-pitched scream accompanied by the rattle of castanets and a driving bass beat (downright freaky). “I’m going with deadly,” Fin said. "

― Carrie Ryan , The Map to Everywhere (The Map to Everywhere, #1)