Quotes

The Cay

Timothy: [while teaching Phillip to make sleeping mats while he's blind] Over and under. Over and under.
Phillip: [pushes the mat away] I won't do it!
Timothy: We must all work, young bahss.
Phillip: That's your kind of work, you stupid black trash! You can't even spe...
[Timothy slaps Phillip across the face]
Timothy: Be getting back to work my own self.

[Phillip groans and sits right up]
Timothy: Put your head back down, young bahss, and rest a little while longer.
[Phillip gets seasick and crawls to the side of the raft to vomit]
Timothy: [holds him] Dis be good, dis be good. 'Tis most natural for you to do this. 'Tis d'shock of having all this most terrible thing happen.

Phillip: [while he becomes blind] Timothy?
Timothy: Young bahss.
Phillip: Is it night?
Timothy: 'Tis day.
Phillip: [in shock] Timothy!
[Timothy turns in a stunned look]
Phillip: I can't see!
Timothy: WHAT?
Phillip: I'm blind! I'm blind! I'm blind!
Timothy: Young bahss, you cannot be blind!
[Timothy picks up Phillip and turns him to the sun]
Timothy: Look at the sun!
Phillip: I'm blind...
Timothy: [puts him down] Now, please. You must lie down and rest. What has happened will go away. 'Tis most natural temporary

Timothy: [after his malaria goes away, notices he's by the ocean shore] How did I get down here?
Phillip: [laughed] You jumped up and ran.
Timothy: That fever, some devil.
Phillip: Right into the water.
Timothy: That be true. My head burn like fire. I put it out.

[after the shipwreck, Phillip sees Timothy next to him on the raft]
Timothy: Young bahss, you with me now. It has been lonesome these very hours.
Phillip: My head!
Timothy: You had a most outrageous crack on the head, young bahss, before I harl you board this raft.
Phillip: What happened?
Timothy: That most treacherous torpedo split the very hull. Two minute at the most, the ship gone.
Phillip: My mother!
Timothy: That lady, ah, they put her in the lifeboat. And that be true, young bahss.

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