Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Secret Sharer.
Isolation Quotes
At that moment I was alone on her decks. There was not a sound in her—and around us nothing moved, nothing lived, not a canoe on the water, not a bird in the air, not a cloud in the sky. (1.2)
Man and the Natural World Quotes
In this breathless pause at the threshold of a long passage we seemed to be measuring our fitness for a long and arduous enterprise, the appointed task of both our existences to be carried out, far...
Madness Quotes
[And] all the time the dual working of my mind distracted me almost to the point of insanity. (1.11)
Friendship Quotes
A mysterious communication was established already between us two—in the face of that silent, darkened tropical sea. (1.39)
Appearances Quotes
He raised sharply his simple face, overcharged by a terrible growth of whisker. (1.7)