Quote by Jack London

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Now all the mountains had been conquered and astronauts had walked in space. There were no more islands on earth—no matter how small—left to…

— Paulo Coelho

“Suddenly, he felt that the world had no place for him, despite how large it was.”

— Anonymous

“We were so used to traveling we had to walk all over Long Island, but there was no more land, just the Atlantic Ocean,…

— Jack Kerouac

“Perhaps that was the reason she felt so hemmed in. Islands were places in between; places neither here nor there, but rather places on…

— Kimberley Freeman

“Was there only one world, after all, that spent its time dreaming of others?”

— Philip Pullman

“So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the Wisconsin woods,…

— Luisa Weiss

“I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how more than…

— Katherine Mansfield

“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

“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

“How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

— Margaret Craven