Children Quote by Lisel Mueller

“When you discover an island that belongs to nobody, it is yours.”

— Antione de Saint-Exupery

“For now I sit on my final island of the present as my radius of memory shrinks; lost already are the islands of work,…

— Chuma Nwokolo

“We were not many, and the world was very small. There were strange lands to the east- islands like Akutan; so we thought all…

— Jack London

“Now all the mountains had been conquered and astronauts had walked in space. There were no more islands on earth—no matter how small—left to…

— Paulo Coelho

“There are so many other worlds and dimensions that are undiscovered.”

— Maci Bright

“There was a mysterious chasm between this island and the greater world, just like there was between old and young, ancient and new.”

— Ann Brashares

“Each person is a vast territory of undiscovered mystery as nebulous and uncharted as the deepest oceans and expanses of space.”

— Bryant McGill

... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“I think we all have archipelagoes in our minds.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“We travel abroad to discover in distant lands something whose presence at home has become unrecognisable.”

— Michel de Certeau

“Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective. Or perhaps more aptly put, each of us may hold…

— Dan Simmons

“There are countless things in this vast universe that humankind does not know.”

— Jeff VanderMeer