Quote by Ann Brashares

“How, in the first place, did a peripheral island rise from primitive squalor to world domination?”

— Thomas Sowell

“the new world may be in fact a very, very, very, very old world.”

— Padgett Powell

“We were not many, and the world was very small. There were strange lands to the east- islands like Akutan; so we thought all…

— Jack London

“Nights and days came and passed And summer and winter and the rain. And it was good to be a little Island. A part…

— Margaret Wise Brown

“I will not return to a universe of objects that do not know each other, as if islands were not the long lost children…

— Lisel Mueller

“No island is an island, he said. There is no new land, just the same body broken open.”

— Matt Rasmussen

“The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.”

— Peter Matthiessen

“The older he got, the simpler the world was revealed to be.”

— Elizabeth Bear

“I could tell I was at the gateway of a region half-bewitched through the piling-up of unbroken time-accumulations; a region where old, strange things…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands”

— Margaret Craven

“But when a place has been an island the memory of water lingers, and of water magic, no matter how far away the sea…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald