Connected Quote by Charles de Lint

“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

“About ten degrees upslope of Fiction, I could see our nearest neighbor: Artistic Criticism. It was an exceptionally beautiful island, yet deeply troubled, confused…

— Jasper Fforde

“There was a mysterious chasm between this island and the greater world, just like there was between old and young, ancient and new.”

— Ann Brashares

“No man is an island,” he says. “Islands are made of dirt and rocks and trees. I don’t know any people made of such…

— Andrew Shaffer

“The whole island was stained in blood and haunted with the dead. Horror stories lay beneath every square foot of this awful place, and…

— John Dixon Phoenix Island

“They had lived their older lives like strangers from different shipwrecks, washed up on the same island, without the benefit of a common language.”

— Tracy Guzeman

“Still, though no one is an island, most are peninsulas. Our lives wouldn't make sense without personal memories pinned like butterflies against the velvet…

— Diane Ackerman

“From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”

— Aldous Huxley

“We were alone in the dark, even though the enormous theater was filled with probably a thousand people. We were a tiny island in…

— Claire LaZebnik

We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.

— Denise Levertov

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

— Thomas Sowell

“No one [Islanders] trod easily upon the emotions of another where the sea licked everywhere against an endless shoreline. And this was excellent and…

— David Guterson