Quote by M.L. Stedman

“The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.”

— Peter Matthiessen

“There, below the cliffs, is a bay of sand where the rocks stand up like the fangs of wolves, and no boat or swimmer…

— Mary Stewart

“around at the rocky landscape. "Are we sure this is the island”

— Michael Ziegler

“Even cliffs are vulnerable, Captain Eversea, she thought. The sea gets at them, eventually, reshaping them inexorably, giving them no choice at all in…

— Julie Anne Long

“was a granite island of calm. When the turbulent storms rocked her inner world, until she was no longer sure where reality ended and…

— Ilona Andrews

“The structure crouched like a great stone tiger on a slope of the East Bay, resting on the cliffside with calm grace.”

— Aspen Matis

“At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.”

— John Banville

“For the first few miles the highway ran through a little valley dotted with rocks that seemed to have fallen from the sky. Chunks…

— Roberto Bolaño

“A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.”

— Sarah Hall

“She saw the deepness that was at the edge of France and it made the beach under her feel like a ledge on a…

— J.M. Ledgard

“If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Rockface sheer and imposing, emerges from the sea, reminding us nature makes no allowances.”

— Marcia Meier