Islands Quotes

778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement… — Albert Camus
The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal… — Elwyn Brooks White
Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be… — Margaret Atwood
...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places. — Kaui Hart Hemmings
And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub the moss off… — Isaac Marion
The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough. — Maggie Stiefvater
In the night, I've shrunk and everyone else on the island has grown. They're all nine feet tall and men and I'm four feet and… — Maggie Stiefvater
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest… — Gail Carriger
Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything... — Clive Barker
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the… — Caitlin Moran
And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries. — Paul Simon
We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar.… — Laura Hillenbrand
She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of… — May Sarton
You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach. — Deb Caletti
We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding. — Rudyard Kipling
...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something." "I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature… — Libba Bray
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Piper to Drew: P: In case youthink Im not a true Daughter of Aphrodite dont even look at Jason Grace. He may not know it… — Rick Riordan
He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as… — Neal Shusterman
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all… — Elwyn Brooks White
The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It… — Enid Blyton
In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had… — Kristin Hannah
... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world. — Guy Gavriel Kay
I can't really believe that it's over. "I'll speak for her." Every face turns to where Sean Kendrick stands a little apart from the crowd,… — Maggie Stiefvater
I can see her clearly, standing on the rock beside Peg Gratton, unflinching before Eaton and the rest of the race committee. I can't remember… — Maggie Stiefvater

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