Brother Quote by Kirsty Logan

“Let it be sufficient to say that, on this night, he was still my lighthouse and albatross in equal measure. The only thing more…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I’ve wanted to seek out new destinations and new adventures. I’ve sought an escape from the world in which I was raised. Now I…

— Anonymous

“...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

“The idea that she would leave all of this - the rooms of the house once more familiar and warm and comforting - and…

— Colm Tóibín

“How one can never truly leave. And never quite return. Do you understand?”

— Emma Richler

“I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“She thinks: all journeys are the same journey, whether you're moving or not. And the things that look like endings are all just stations…

— M.R. Carey

“To leave a novel unfinished, is to leave the characters stranded.”

— Anonymous

“...But Aunt Anne has encouraged me to continue. In many regards, life itself is a voyage, she says. We never know where its winds…

— Heather Vogel Frederick

“It baffled her, the world. She did not want to leave it yet.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“I had left small-town, rural life for good, and I had no intention of ever returning, not because I didn't like my home but…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Funny, just this minute he didn't want much to get away from the island.”

— Agatha Christie