Coelho Quote by Paulo Coelho

“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

“…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?”

— John Wyndham

“I will not return to a universe of objects that do not know each other, as if islands were not the long lost children…

— Lisel Mueller

“How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“We were so used to traveling we had to walk all over Long Island, but there was no more land, just the Atlantic Ocean,…

— Jack Kerouac

“No island is an island, he said. There is no new land, just the same body broken open.”

— Matt Rasmussen

“I did not deliberately invent Earthsea, I did not think ‘Hey wow — islands are archetypes and archipelagoes are superarchetypes and let’s build us…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Some islands are actually the tips of underwater mountains”

— Adam Anderson

“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

“There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands”

— Margaret Craven

“How, in the first place, did a peripheral island rise from primitive squalor to world domination?”

— Thomas Sowell