Michael Quotes

“‘I’ll see you in church.’ Tony said ‘I’d like to see the church in you.‘”

“All I know is, you can fight against your wife, and probably hold your own, but if God is fighting for her, you can hit the gym all you want to, but it’s not looking too good for you.”

“Nothing else for it. Knock it down and start again.”

“And to be quite honest, Mrs. Dando, the last thing Michael needs is to be troubled by petty things like football and school.”

“And spirit jumping in and jumping out but never seen.”

“I thought how you could never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening in their lives.”

“You spent the whole day being angry with Michael. Did you notice how much fun we had?”

“I get it,” said Michael. “Maybe good luck and bad luck are all mixed up. You never know what will happen next.”

“They made such a noise that Michael came running, waving his arms and blowing his whistle. He planted himself in the center of the road, raised one hand to stop the traffic, and then beckoned with the other, the way policemen do, for Mrs. Mallard to cross over.”

“We hurried to the door with the red sign: DANGER.”

“Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.”

“He was filthy and pale and dried out and I thought he was dead. I couldn’t have been more wrong.”

“One day they swam over to the park on the river bank, and there they met a policeman called Michael. Michael fed them peanuts, and after that the Mallards called on Michael every day. ”

″ ‘Who are you?’ I whispered. He shrugged again. ‘Something,’ he said. ‘Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel.’ He laughed. ‘Something like that.’ ”

When Michael is washed up on an island in the Pacific after falling from his parent’s yacht, the Peggy Sue, he struggles to survive on his own. But he soon realizes there is someone close by, someone who is watching over him and helping him to stay alive.

It is an exciting adventure novel in which a young boy named Michael is swept overboard during a storm while sailing around the world with his family, and left stranded on a desert island with his pet dog.