Quote by Joan Didion

“The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.”

— Peter Matthiessen

“They set forth in a crimson dawn where sky and earth closed in a razorous plane. Out there dark little archipelagos of cloud and…

— Cormac McCarthy

“The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern…

— Joseph Conrad

“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

“But when a place has been an island the memory of water lingers, and of water magic, no matter how far away the sea…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“Stories wander around, go from one land to another, sometimes parts change.”

— Ari Berk

“No island is an island, he said. There is no new land, just the same body broken open.”

— Matt Rasmussen

“William James wrote, “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”

— Wallace J. Nichols

“We change the earth and our changes may only be temporary; yet the signs of what we have done may persist, as these mounds…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“The two of you stood there, side by side, and the tectonic plates of your lives began to shift and resettle, continents separating.”

— Dan Chaon

“They say in old stories that you can't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a long time.”

— Laurie Gough