Quote by Melissa Albert Download Open image ““We were each our own island, gathered together into one messed-up archipelago.”” — Melissa Albert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“No island is an island, he said. There is no new land, just the same body broken open.” — Matt Rasmussen Copy Share Image
“When you discover an island that belongs to nobody, it is yours.” — Antione de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“We are but two islands. At times we may touch, but ever does the current flow between us.” — Nicholas John Greenfield Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
“From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Each of us needs something of an island in his life—if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in… — John C. Keats Copy Share Image
“Still, though no one is an island, most are peninsulas. Our lives wouldn't make sense without personal memories pinned like butterflies against the velvet… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Be an island unto yourself. Take refuge in yourself and not in anything else.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“Usually when I looked at people too long I started seeing them as component parts: Bony noses. Eyeballs in sockets. Odd cartilage curve of… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“Lana left, and a guy named Norm came in to replace her. He spent the next three hours talking about a hangout he had with Lana that may or may not have been a date, not that he was worried about it, but what did I think and had Lana mentioned him? I gave him non-committal answers until I finally… — Melissa Albert Copy Share
“Some bitch? She was my girlfriend for eight months. It's so ugly when girls call each other that word." "Oh, my god, Finch, go… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“You might think you have a really good reason, but nothing could be worth this. Nothing could be worth feeling this way. I feel like a changeling wearing someone else's skin. I can't remember what I liked, or what I wanted, why I worked or left the house or did anything. It's all gone... I think whatever I used to… — Melissa Albert Copy Share
“So my name, my full name, is Ellery Oliver Djan-Nelson-Abrams-Finch." "Does that fit on a Scantron?" "A what?" "Nevermind.” — Melissa Albert Copy Share
“Everyone is supposed to be a combination of nature and nurture, their true selves shaped by years of friends and fights and parents and… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“I avoided my eyes while brushing my teeth, then climbed into bed with a copy of _The Blind Assassin_, because if you're not with… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“Look until the leaves turn red, sew the worlds up with thread. If your journey's left undone, fear the rising of the sun.” — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“There are no lessons in it. There's just this harsh, horrible world touched with beautiful magic, where shity things happen. And they don't happen… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“I hated Tennessee Williams's Laura. She reminded me too much of a fairy-tale character. Not the ones my grandmother wrote, allegedly-- those women drew… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“ My love he wooed me My love he slew me My love he buried my bones His love he married His love I… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“I walked a block on rubbery knees, feeling the way I did the time a van clipped my bike and sent me reeling into… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
