Art Quote by John Gibson Paton

Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never…

— Louise Erdrich

As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When we were almost to the other campus, I felt the weird nausea hit me. I called a warning to Christian, just as a…

— Richelle Mead

I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could…

— Anonymous

“I took a deep breath, inhaling the musty scent of unbrushed velvet and candle wax. So the room was blood red, dark, and scary.…

— Sarah Katherine Lewis

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge…

— John James Audubon

We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.

— Pablo Neruda

The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and…

— Sylvia Plath

“Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the…

— Jim Butcher

I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt…

— Dinaw Mengestu

“It was warm and salty, chalky and bittersweet. It tasted like the blood of some old, old thing. I tried not to think about…

— Terence McKenna