Islands Quotes - Page 37

• I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

  Yann Martel

  Spiritual, Lonely, Comfort

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.401, Canongate Books

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• People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

  Ian Fleming

  Relationship, Years, People

  Ian Fleming (2002). “Casino Royale”

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• When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Atheist, Mean, Sleep

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• Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Running, Wall, Flower

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Professor Norman Page (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.20, Routledge

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• I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch?

  Sloane Crosley

  School, Eye, Artist

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• Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Garden, May, Littles

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.108, Macmillan

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• Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Aunt, Secret

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.86, A&C Black

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• Hy gododin catann hue Hud a lledrith mal wyddan Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri Varigal don Fincayra Dravia, dravia Fincayra (Talking trees and walking stones, Giants aare the island's bones. While this land our dance still knows, Varigal crowns Fincayra. Live long, live long Fincayra.

  T.A. Barron

  Talking, Long, Tree

  T. A. Barron (2011). “The Seven Songs”, p.187, Penguin

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• Some of the memories were not clear - -dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face... the way it felt when he'd held me in the meadow... the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he'd save me from James... his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me... every precious moment on the island... his cold hands touching our baby through my skin.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Baby, Memories, Flower

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• What happened to the alpha-wolf?" "LEGOs." "Legos?" It sounded Greek but I couldn't recall anything mythological with that name. Wasn't it an island? "He was carrying a load of laundry into the basement and tripped on the old set of LEGOs his kids left on the stairs. Broke two ribs and an ankle.

  Ilona Andrews

  Kids, Names, Two

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.86, Penguin

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• It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Spring, School

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.340, GENERAL PRESS

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• They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

  James M. Barrie

  Rate, Rounds

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.53, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We’re not dead yet.” – Sundown “Yet is the operative word. If that’s all that’s in the way, I’ll kill you and end it. Ren? Give me your knife.” – Sasha “It’s their decision.” – Ren “Oh, that’s it. You’re fired buddy. Get off my island until you learn to be a team player.” – Sasha

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Team, Player, Knives

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• Cole grasped a handful of vials and syringes with one hand and dumped them on the island in front of me. They rolled and whirled in misshapen circles on the counter surface. "Here are our options." My ears rang. "We have more than one?" "Three, precisely," Cole said. He pointed to each in turn. "That one makes you a wolf. That one makes me a wolf. That one gives us both seizures.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hands, Circles, Giving

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.867, Scholastic Inc.

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• Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.

  Roger Zelazny

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Roger Zelazny (2001). “Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat”, Ibooks

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• I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries out. The knife and fork are abviously middle-class sensibilities. The palm tree is a nice touch. A broken dream,perhaps? Plastic honeymoon, deserted island? Oh, If you put in a slice of pumpkin pie, it could be a desserted island! (Pg 64)

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Dream, Nice

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.64, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

  Albert Camus

  New York, Insomnia, Iron

  Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

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• The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

  E. B. White

  Race, Cities, Add

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• Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Eye, Curves

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems, 1965-1975”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

  Kaui Hart Hemmings

  Growing Up, Kids, Pretty Places

  Kaui Hart Hemmings (2005). “House of Thieves”, Penguin Press HC

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• And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub the moss off the Space Shuttle and fly Julie to the moon and colonise it, or float a capsized cruise ship to some distant island where no one will protest us, or just harness the magic that brings me into the brains of the Living and use it to bring Julie into mine, because it's warm in here, it's quiet and lovely, and in here we aren't an absurd juxtaposition, we are perfect.

  Isaac Marion

  Moon, Space, Perfect

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• The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Different, Truth Is, Enough

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.13, Scholastic UK

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• In the night, I've shrunk and everyone else on the island has grown. They're all nine feet tall and men and I'm four feet and a child. Dove, too, is a toy or possibly a dog as I lead her through the throngs of people.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dog, Children, Night

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• What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest most eccentric historical phenomenon of them all? Answer:the Great British Empire. Clearly, one tiny little island could only conquer half the known world with supernatural aid. Those absurd Victorian manners and ridiculous fashions were obviously dictated by vampires. And, without a doubt, the British army regimental system functions on werewolf pack dynamics.

  Gail Carriger

  Fashion, Army, Historical

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• Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.

  Clive Barker

  Hours, Enough, Seems

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