In memory of Rontu

For the last of the quote challenge, I give you the opening to Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell.

"I remember the day the Aleut ship came to our island. At first it seemed like a small shell afloat on the sea. Then it grew larger and was a gull with folded wings. At last in the rising sun it became what it really was - a red ship with two red sails."

http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/pdfs/Island_of_pt1.pdf interesting background information on both the author (who did not start writing books for children until in his sixties) and how he came to write this book.