Life Quote by Romain Rolland

“But when a place has been an island the memory of water lingers, and of water magic, no matter how far away the sea…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“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

“They set forth in a crimson dawn where sky and earth closed in a razorous plane. Out there dark little archipelagos of cloud and…

— Cormac McCarthy

“The great writers, Conrad, Maugham and Melville, spent only a few years in the South Seas, but their memory of those waters was indestructible;…

— James A. Michener

“The rivers are my memory, and I drink them at their basin and remember.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the…

— Adam Haslett

“Some islands are actually the tips of underwater mountains”

— Adam Anderson

“Nights and days came and passed And summer and winter and the rain. And it was good to be a little Island. A part…

— Margaret Wise Brown

“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big…

— Joseph Conrad

“With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas, We sailed for the Hesperides, The land where golden apples grow; But that, ah! that was long ago.…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Wooded islands foregrounded the mainland darkly.”

— Miranda Weiss