Quote by Jonathan L. Howard

“The galleys...had been dirven onto the rocks of Skagos, the isle of unicorns and cannibals where even the Blind Bastard had feared to land.”

— George R.R. Martin

“The strange thing about ships is despite them being crowded and stinky and at the mercy of Nature, most times they are like wooden…

— Louis Nowra

“He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possibly a man…

— Yukio Mishima

“Stories of cannibalism among castaways were so common that British sailors considered the practice of choosing and sacrificing a victim to be an established…

— Laura Hillenbrand

“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

“As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the…

— James Jones

“And I would,” Dorian said, leaning forward before Aelin could snarl at the ignored letter. “We win this war, and you have the two…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister…

— Honoré de Balzac

“The island had come to seem one of those places seen from the train that belong to a life in which we shall never…

— Arthur Ransome

“People, too, become like islands in such an atmosphere, self-contained, whole and serene; respecting other people’s solitude, not intruding on their shores, standing back…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island race. Through all our centuries,…

— Noel Coward

“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