Quote by Kimberley Freeman

“There were places, she now saw, that contained more happiness than ordinary places did. Unless you knew that such places existed, you might be…

— Matthew Thomas

“Of course often those places went very cheap - islands didn't suit everybody. They thought the idea was romantic but when they came to…

— Agatha Christie

“She found that the whole world could be contained in one place because that place was herself. Nothing had prepared her for this.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“It was the apparent isolation of the place that touched her; it was somewhere she felt she could be separated from the rest of…

— Erica James

“...once you settle on an island, you never leave, an island holds on to what it has with all its might and main.”

— Roy Jacobsen

“Perhaps one day she would find a place where she would stay. That would be good. To know that the place you were in…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Wasn’t that just the theme of her life? Marginalized on the outskirts.”

— Lori Wilde

“How could a person not belong in the only place she ever lived?”

— Tracy L. Higley

“...the longer she had lived away, the more she realized that nowhere became home… though everywhere had.”

— Susan Örnbratt

“You will find your Island here. But how can it be here in the middle of the city? -It needs no place. It is…

— C.S. Lewis

“She felt most comfortable in nature, where things weren’t required to look like the other in order to live together peacefully.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to…

— Marcel Proust