Islands Quotes - Page 9

• Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

  Herman Melville

  Maps, West, Far Away

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.57

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• You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I’d been on the island with Gilligan, he’d have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stupidity, Firsts, Opinion

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.467, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Ghetto, Mainstream Society, Individuality

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• Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

  Cassandra Clare

  Jace, Unlikely, Casts

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then, to the island they would share. One day surely the wars would end, and Jim would come home, if only to lie broken in MacMurrough’s arms, he would come to his island home. And MacMurrough would have it built for him, brick by brick, washed by the rain and the reckless sea. In the living stream they’d swim a season. For maybe it was true that no man is an island: but he believed that two very well might be.

  Jamie O'Neill

  War, Lying, Rain

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• In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe of kelp; green soap navigates the tidal slosh of seas breaking on legendary beaches; in faith we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.

  Sylvia Plath

  Beach, Stars, Real

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• This is a new point in my life, and things are totally changing. But like the sunsets I saw on Tybee Island, the miles I’ve already gone are going to stay with me.

  Miley Cyrus

  Sunset, Gone, Saws

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• There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.

  Juliet Marillier

  Stars, Sky, Different

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.202, Macmillan

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• The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have to roll up your pants, jump off the boat and wade in through the surf on your own power. There's absolutely no way to do this without getting soaking wet or even banged up on the coral, but it's worth all the trouble because the beach here is so beautiful, so special

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Beach, Anchors

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.309, A&C Black

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• That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Summer, Being In Love, Love Is

  Robert Penn Warren (2002). “All the King's Men”, p.563, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wish, Desert, Moments

  "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

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• But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last.

  Jack Gilbert

  Summer, Stars, Ocean

  Jack Gilbert, “Failing And Flying”

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• There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki

  Tamora Pierce

  Warrior, Class

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• As ever, the original inhabitants of Turtle Island are entirely overlooked. Mysteriously, the only time indigenous people are guaranteed a mainstream Amerikkan mention is on Thanksgiving. Again, to contextualize, this would be be kinda like someone busting into your house and robbing you blind, then sending you postcards once a year to remind you how much they are enjoying all of your stuff, and getting annoyed with you if you don't respond with appreciation for their thoughtfulness.

  Inga Muscio

  Appreciation, Turtles, Years

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• You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,” said Molly. “You forgot?” said Leonard. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Molly.

  Dave Barry

  Might, Facts, Said

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• I meditate, and when I do, Prince Harry appears in my subconscious and meditates with me. It's a little strange but I don't think there's anything I can do about it. Sometimes he's not the only one; the other day it was me, Prince Harry, the Dalai Lama, Mr. Rogers, Coco the gorilla, and George Clooney. We were all floating above the earth looking down at the continents as they passed. George Clooney suggested I visit Providence, Rhode Island. The Dalai Lama sighed deeply and said he'd like to visit Tibet. Poor Dalai Lama.

  Kristin Cashore

  Thinking, Rhode Island, Floating

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• Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially.

  Douglas Adams

  Thinking, People, Upset

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• Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.

  Roberto Bolano

  Past, Two, Rivers

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• Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.

  Douglas Adams

  Nature, Pieces, Earth

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.120, Ballantine Books

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• Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

  J. D. Salinger

  Sea, Phrases, Littles

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• Alec flushed. "I think it's more important for you to go than me. You're Valentine's son, I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming." Jace glared at him. "Maybe not at the moment," Alec amended. "But you're usually charming. And faeries are very susceptible to charm." "Plus, if you stay here, I've got the whole first season of Gilligan's Island on DVD," Magnus said. "No one could turn that down," said Jace. He still wouldn't look at Clary.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Valentine, Son

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not so sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?

  Cassandra Clare

  Wind, Smell, Darkness

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my future, my dreams, and my beliefs. Buru Island is no happy land somewhere; it's but a way station on my journey in life—though to believe even that much will require no small measure of hope.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Dream, Believe, Eye

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1999). “The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir”

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• But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.

  Daniel Handler

  Country, Europe, Law

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• For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing! They own wardrobes, slaves, carriages, houses, warehouses, and ships. They own ports, cities, plantations, valleys, mountains, chains of islands. They own this world, its jungles, its skies, and its seas. Yet they complain that Dejima is a prison. They complain they are not free.

  David Mitchell

  Men, White Man, Sea

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