Islands Quotes
778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors
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A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I’ve got some kind of medical issue that’s going to kill me in a while…
— Jim Butcher
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Welcome to the island of misfit toys
— Stephen Chbosky
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Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem…
— Agatha Christie
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Still Caine hesitated. A big, warm bed. A beautiful girl to share it with. Food. Water. Everything he needed, just a few miles away on…
— Michael Grant
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Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to…
— Jim Butcher
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No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.
— Richard Matheson
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It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the…
— Jessica Day George
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A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There…
— Holly Black
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I think that’s a mercy of this island, actually, that it won’t give us our terrible memories for long, but let us keep the good…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard…
— Paul Valery
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My chauffer once told me that I would feel better in the morning, but when I woke up the two of us were still on…
— Daniel Handler
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When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her hooves pound a…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island,…
— A A Milne
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Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar
— Rachel Cohn
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I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than than that. They just were. Adult stories never made…
— Neil Gaiman
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We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
— William James
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The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.
— Cassandra Clare
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Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation at the universe…
— Sarah Dessen
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There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of them.…
— Eoin Colfer
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He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also cute.
— Rainbow Rowell
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Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz." She smirked.…
— Rick Riordan
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Yeah, my bad," Leo muttered. "I should've crashed on one of the other islands. Oh, wait-there aren't any!" She [Calypso] snarled and kept walking along…
— Rick Riordan
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Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory…
— Margaret Thatcher
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
— Ralph Washington Sockman
Who Wrote These Islands Quotes
627 authors contributed a total of 778 Islands Quotes, led by these top contributors: