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“Karen told me about an old woman who was the last surviving inhabitant of one of the Hermit Islands. She was the only one…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the…

— Leigh Bardugo

“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

“They sat side by side, sad and weary, like shipwrecked sailors on a deserted shore.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“My bed was an island within the desolate sea of my room. Yet I knew that there were other people homebound from illness or…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“No one [Islanders] trod easily upon the emotions of another where the sea licked everywhere against an endless shoreline. And this was excellent and…

— David Guterson

“The words from across the ocean were beaten out of them over time. For simplicity, to erase their identities, to smother uprisings.”

— Colson Whitehead

“Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land. ”

— Simon Van Booy

“Languages are not strangers to on another.”

— Walter Benjamin

“In a sea of strangers, you've longed to know me. Your life spent sailing to my shores.”

— Lang Leav

“The people with whom you share a history: these are the people who can leave you shipwrecked and drowning.”

— Salman Rushdie

“There ain't no island left for islanders like me.”

— Billy Joel