Nim's Island

Nim's Island Quotes

A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.

Alex Rover: Beautiful ocean, isn't it just great?
Alexandra Rover: [immitating Alex's Scottish accent] No, it isn't just grrreat.
Jack: You got so much of your mother in you, you know that?
Nim Rusoe: That's a good thing, right?
Jack: Yeah, good. Sure. Unfortunately I could never win a fight with her, either.
[from trailer]
Jack: Be the hero of your own life story.
Alex Rover: Don't hand me that line - I wrote that line!
Nim Rusoe: Nobody invades my island and gets away with it.
[from trailer]
Jack: What are you afraid of?
Alex Rover: Everything!
Nim Rusoe: [steam violently spurts out from volcano] Did I do that?
Edmund's Mother: This is no place for games!
Edmund's Father: It's the perfect place for games!
Jack: No parties while I'm gone!
Captain: What on earth are you doing?
Alex Rover: I'm just having a nervous breakdown!
[from trailer]
Alex Rover: I'm not afraid to go out!
Nim Rusoe: I don't have to go to school, I'm home schooled.
Alexandra Rover: I took a plane, I took a helicopter, I stole a boat!
Alex Rover: What are these?
Alexandra Rover: Airsick pills.
Alex Rover: Don't they make you drowsy?
Alexandra Rover: Drowsy?
[cut to Alexandra snoring]
Nim Rusoe: [to Alexandra] You came here all the way from San Fransisco and you don't know how to do anything.
[last lines]
Nim Rusoe: The writer, and the scientist. That's how their story began. How it ends, exactly? Nobody knows.

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