Dream-state Quote by Christopher Priest

“I think we all have archipelagoes in our minds.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“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

“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

“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

“And the boat and the dock and the gravel on the shore, the trees sky-pointed or crouching, leaning out over the water, the complicated…

— Alice Munro

“Can the potential isolation of living on an island of our own frame of reference be banished by simple concurrences that become the currency…

— Nora Bateson

“I learned that, to survive, it was best to live in the present. On this island, there was no past or future. Your destiny…

— Armando Lucas Correa

“Wooded islands foregrounded the mainland darkly.”

— Miranda Weiss

“Just as islands—isolated places with unique, rich biodiversity—have relevance for the ecosystems everywhere, so does studying seemingly isolated or overlooked people and events from…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we…

— Mary Oliver

“There ain't no island left for islanders like me.”

— Billy Joel

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

— Thomas Sowell