Quote by Miranda Weiss Download Open image ““Wooded islands foregrounded the mainland darkly.”” — Miranda Weiss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The whole island was stained in blood and haunted with the dead. Horror stories lay beneath every square foot of this awful place, and… — John Dixon Phoenix Island Copy Share Image
“Islands are emblematic not only of solitude but of refuge and sanctuary, the way a small boat is an island in rough seas.” — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“How, in the first place, did a peripheral island rise from primitive squalor to world domination?” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.” — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“And the boat and the dock and the gravel on the shore, the trees sky-pointed or crouching, leaning out over the water, the complicated… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I jogged along the deck to the stern, tracking the shipwreck as it disappeared beneath our wake. Then, just as I was starting to… — Ransom Riggs 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
“It would take a year before the answers to those questions became clear, but much longer to realize that it was too easy to… — Miranda Weiss Copy Share Image
“. . . each feeling was hitched to its opposite, the way centripetal and centrifugal forces keep our universe from collapsing as well as… — Miranda Weiss Copy Share Image
