Five on a Treasure Island Quotes

″...George hates being a girl, and we have to call her George, as if she were a boy. The naughty girl won’t answer if we call her Georgina.”

“Once she makes friends with you, she will always be your friend...”

“I just feel as if it’s the right place somehow. It sounds sort of adventurous.”

“I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl. I won’t be. I don’t like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do.”

“My castle and my island are the nicest things I could ever have. Mother! Mother! You know you said I could have them. You know you did! I believed you.”

“It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.”

“You know quite well what grown-ups think as soon as we yawn.”

“I don’t make friends with people just because they’re my cousins, or something silly like that. I only make friends with people if I like them.”

“I don’t know why, but it always seems very important that it should be sunny on the first day of a holiday.”

“Honestly, I believe anyone could light a cigarette from the sparks that fly from your eyes!”