https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes Made with a stroke of good luck en-us 2019-02-11 17:27:42 UTC 2025-11-08 00:30:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330011887 "Imo took some of the night and rubbed it in his hands and made Locaha, the god of death."]]> 2019-02-11 18:09:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330011887 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330019936 "So [Imo] took the souls of some dolphins, who at least had learned to speak, and he mixed them with clay and rubbed them in his hands and changed their shape and they became people"(1).]]> 2019-02-11 18:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330019936 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330169265 "And we will give [the foreigners] the golden door... And you will give a gift to us too... A big telescope..."]]> 2019-02-12 02:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330169265 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330178364 "They believe in single combat, one chief against another... This is about belief. If their god doesn't smile on them, they won't fight."

]]> 2019-02-12 03:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330178364 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330183810 "There is a story, a very old story, about two brothers who fought... One killed the other, but in the battle it could have been otherwise, and the other one dead... The killer fled, knowing the punishment and taking it upon himself... He would be sent far away from the islands, far from his people, from his family, never to walk in the steps of his ancestors, never to sing a death chant for his father, never to hear the songs of his childhood, never again to smell the sweet water of home..."(264).]]> 2019-02-12 03:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330183810 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330187993 "[Mau is] just a boy, with no tattoos. [The Raiders] won't speak to [him]" (300-301) ]]> 2019-02-12 04:14:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330187993 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330515616  "Get me to Port Mercia, and my father will give you gold and a pardon... We'll take you off this rock at first light. Might even get you as far as dear old dad. But there'd better be gold at the end of it, or else" (250-251)]]> 2019-02-12 19:12:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330515616 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330516203 “And this is why we are born in water, and do not kill dolphins, and look toward the stars” (2) ]]> 2019-02-12 19:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330516203 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330516502 "Imo thought this was a good idea, because it was his own creation, and went of to make his new world in the sky" (2)

]]> 2019-02-12 19:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330516502 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330516713 "You shouldn't have shot the priest... It's bad luck to kill a priest... they got these spells; they can shrink your head" (250)]]> 2019-02-12 19:14:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330516713 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330517021 "Perhaps. They worship Locaha. They think he protects them. They collect skulls for him. They eat the flesh of men in his honor. They believe the more men they kill, the more slaves they will have in his country when the takes the,. They don't if they die. But Locaha makes no bargains with anyone"(290).]]> 2019-02-12 19:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330517021 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330524057 "A man who will kill a priest, or kill a man for the pleasure of seeing him die, or kill a dolphin... could not be a man at all... It must have been an evil demon haunting the shell of a man, they say... The ghost girl could not have killed him, because he was already dead"(276).]]> 2019-02-12 19:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330524057 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330524885 "The cannibal twin of the prime minister stepped between [Mau and Cox] with his hands raised... 'No fight yet!' he said to Cox in broken English" (309-310]]> 2019-02-12 19:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330524885 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330525811 "What Pilu gave them was the story all over again, but with acting too... She could make out the character of Captain Roberts, heavy and pompous, and surely the one who sidled around was Polegrave, and the one who stamped and roared was Cox... They shouted at one another al the time, while Pilu's fingers popped like pistols and somehow, in the middle of the air, the story unfolded" (272-273)]]> 2019-02-12 19:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330525811 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330525985 "They believe in single combat, one chief against another...But Cox wants them all to fight, and they know they should obey... He wants a massacre" (305).]]> 2019-02-12 19:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330525985 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330526717 “Do you think I won’t, ghost girl?”(279)

"Things had been quite busy lately, and ‘ghost girl’ was said so sharply it had hurt. It did. Of course, they all called her ghost girl, even Mau sometimes, and it had never worried her. but this time he told her to go away, trouserman girl, you are not one of us”(279).]]> 2019-02-12 19:31:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330526717 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330527656 "I think people from this island sailed around the world, a long, long time ago... You remembered, but over the years it became a story for little children" (281).

"Then [the ancestors that found/had the knowledge] made up these songs and mothers sing them to their children! That's how the knowledge gets passed down, except that [people] didn't know it was knowledge!" (284-285)]]> 2019-02-12 19:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330527656 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330529956 "He began with the truth and then he hammered it out until it was very thin but gleamed like Mrs. Gurgle's new teeth at noon" (287).]]> 2019-02-12 19:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330529956 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330531776 “When a human dies, [Locaha] will send them to be a dolphin until it is time for them to be born again. But when [he] finds a creature who has... glorified this mean world by being a part of it, then [he] will open a door for them into [Imo’s] perfect world, and they will no longer be creatures of time, for they will wear stars”(1-2).]]> 2019-02-12 19:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330531776 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330622243 "And this is why we are born in water..." (2).]]> 2019-02-13 00:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330622243 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330624548 "We go to the Sweet Judy for everything... It gives use wood and food and light" (289).]]> 2019-02-13 00:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330624548 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330625338 "And Mau went fishing..." (358).]]> 2019-02-13 00:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330625338 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330627381 "The cannon give us hope... We know who we are now... We are not beggars outside the trouserman world... We are not children... Once we were the bold sailors, all the way to the other end of the world" (288).]]> 2019-02-13 01:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330627381 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330630990 "[Mau] ran a hand over what Daphne called 'the globe'... his fingers following a line of gleaming gold across the stone. There were a lot of these lines, and they all led to the same place---or, rather, away from it..."(281).]]> 2019-02-13 01:24:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330630990 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330633409 "The people of the Nation had sailed beyond the seas they knew, under unfamiliar stars... [Mau] looked up and saw unfamiliar stars" (283).

"Do you remember that the ghost girl thought the glass beads on the ceiling of the cave were a star map, but she couldn't work it out? The professor showed the world that it did indeed map the stars, but the stars as they were thirty-one thousand years ago, and that was confirmed by something called Fission Track Dating of the glass our little toy stars were made of" (360-361).]]> 2019-02-13 01:34:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330633409 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330644989 "Your ancestors knew things that nobody else knew... Mau, the god of Air has four little figures sitting on his shoulders... They are his sons, yes? They raced around their father to see which of them would court the woman who lives in the Moon? It's in the beer song... We call the Air planet Jupiter... Jupiter has four moons that race around it... And then there is Saturn, which you call Fire... The Papervine Woman tied his hands to his belt to stop the god from stealing her daughters, yes? It's true... In a way---I don't know about the Papervine Woman, but the planet Saturn has rings around it, and I suppose they do look like a belt when you see them at the right angle" (284).]]> 2019-02-13 02:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/330644989 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331045606 “Women made the beer”(56)]]> 2019-02-13 20:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331045606 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331047831 “The Mothering Sundays”(184).

However, Mau's people call them either the "Sunrise Islands" or the "Windcatcher islands"(85). It is unclear what they actually call it, or if they are the same thing.]]> 2019-02-13 20:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331047831 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331048823 This is because Mau obeys all of their orders and the Grandfather’s tone implies that they order people around all of the time.

"YOU MUST SING THE MORNING SONG AND THE EVENING SONG”(31).]]> 2019-02-13 21:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331048823 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331103173 "It was a journey of more than twenty miles... He'd lived for a month on the island of the boys, hadn't he... The point about the Boys' Island was that you got away from [it]. You left your boy soul there and were given a man soul when you got back to the nation. You had to get back--otherwise something terrible happened: If you didn't get back in thirty days, they came and fetched you, and you'd never be a man... He had nightmares about building a canoe in thirty days with just a knife. It couldn't be done"(12-13).]]> 2019-02-14 00:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331103173 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331105097 "See how the gods shine? There are little plates of glass all over them... Your ancestors made glass" (285).]]> 2019-02-14 00:51:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331105097 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331105197 "You know the story about the brother who sailed so far he came back home... I think people from this island sailed around the world" (281)]]> 2019-02-14 00:51:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331105197 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331106210 "If he came back ready for a man's tattoos and, obviously the thing with the knife where you must not scream"(49).]]> 2019-02-14 00:56:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331106210 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331106539 "Mau paddled over to a large hehe fish"(19).]]> 2019-02-14 00:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331106539 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331106846 When the Cutty Wren's captain is discussing how to find Daphne(he doesn't know yet that it's his mission) he mentions "England"(8).]]> 2019-02-14 00:59:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331106846 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331107090 "Mau, who had never sat on anything but the ground or a hut floor"(65).]]> 2019-02-14 01:00:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331107090 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331107468 Mau thinks that a drawn arrow equates to a spear, and when Daphne draws a picture intended to make him come to the ship, with an arrow, he throws a spear at it.

“A spear crashed through the cracked porthole, hissed across the cabin, and left via the porthole on the other side, which had lost all its glass to the wave"(64).]]> 2019-02-14 01:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331107468 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331107700 This happened when Mau was dragging Captain Roberts body to bury him in the ocean: 
"[Daphne] helped [Mau] with the difficult bits, or at least tried to, and once they reached the shore, the gray roll slid well enough on the damp sand, but it was a long and tiring drag to the western end of the beach" (69).

"At last Mau managed to get the captain into the waist-deep water at the very edge of the reef" ]]> 2019-02-14 01:03:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331107700 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331108593 "The village faced south... The other three sides were protected by sheer, crumbling cliffs, in which sea caves boomed and foamed... The wave had come from the south of east... Broken trees pointed the trail" (26).]]> 2019-02-14 01:07:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331108593 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331109022 "If they had been quick, they would have headed up Big Pig Valley, to the higher ground beyond the fields... But some of the wave would already have been roaring up the eastern slope (all grassy there, nothing much to slow it down), they would have met it pouring back on them" (26).]]> 2019-02-14 01:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331109022 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331110312 "Should he tell them the truth? Should he tell them that all I've got is a few things I know and a handful of guesses and a big hope, and that we are so weak, and that if I am wrong, those of us not dead by sunset on the day the Raiders attack will wish they were? That will only make them fear... If a lie will make us strong, a lie will be my weapon" (288-289).]]> 2019-02-14 01:15:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331110312 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331110989 "At some time in the past something had split the rock of the island, leaving a long low valley on the east side that was not very far above sea level and had hardly any soil" (33).]]> 2019-02-14 01:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331110989 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331111501 "At the end of the meadows was the Cave of the Grandfathers, high up in the wind and the sunlight, watching over the whole world... [the grandfathers] lived behind a round stone door" (32).

"There was a big bowl in front of the Cave of the Grandfathers where an offering of beer was poured every day" (56).]]> 2019-02-14 01:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331111501 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331112016 "The path to the Women's Place turned off from the track into the forest and then went downhill and southwest and down into a narrow hully... At the end of it were two big stones, taller than a man, splashed with red paint... That was the only way in, back when there were rules... Mau could hear the sea, but it seemed to be a long way off" (57).

About the Women's Place's garden: 
"Here and there around the edges of the gardens were huts" (58).]]> 2019-02-14 01:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331112016 jhikida241 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331112227 All quotes are on page 163
"How big is the Nation... I can't see it."(Mau)

"It's not actually drawn here. It's too small..."(Pilu)

"That can't be right... it's much bigger than any of the Windcatcher Islands"(Mau)

"Islands that are even smaller... and there's lots of them."(Pilu)

"Thousands... it's just that...well, as big islands go--"(Milo)

"--This is one of the smaller ones"(Pilu)

"But the best one"(Mau)]]> 2019-02-14 01:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331112227 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331113973 "The Nation grew the big crops in the large field. That was where you found aharo, sugarcane, tabor, boomerang peas, and black corn" (57).]]> 2019-02-14 01:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331113973 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331114257 "The men grew things that made you live" (57).]]> 2019-02-14 01:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331114257 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331119843 "There was a god anchor in the middle of the island, a brown stone cube half buried in sand and soil... Heavy vines grew over it and wrapped around a huge Tobago tree... Carved deeply into the tree's bark, in the language from the children, were signs: Men help other men" (13).]]> 2019-02-14 01:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331119843 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331120309 "There was plenty of wild food to eat on the island: upside-down fruit, bad-luck root, malls stems, red star tree, papervine nuts..." (39)]]> 2019-02-14 01:59:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331120309 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331121135 "And this was hard, because one of the Right Things for a man was: don't ask silly questions" (50).]]> 2019-02-14 02:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331121135 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331121717 "Everyone would know you'd failed, and you'd probably never get a wife, and if you did get a wife, she'd be a woman none of the real men wanted, with bad teeth and smelly breath" (13).]]> 2019-02-14 02:06:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331121717 slin24 https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331128414 "He couldn't go into the Women's Place, could he? He'd already been up there to take a look, although men couldn't go to the Women's Place, and women couldn't go into the valley of the Grandfathers" (55).]]> 2019-02-14 02:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jhikida241/nationquotes/wish/331128414