121 Quotes About Island

While still a student, Napoleon had written on the last page of his geography book: "St. Helena. Small island." This may have been what we call a coincidence, but the thought must certainly have aroused terror in him in his last days.

It would be like Prospero’s island, but in a good way: not a country of exile, a model world, safe and peaceful and private. A magician’s land.

Find the beauty in everyone and everything, everyday!Roxanne Catherine Mapp

Every man is an island, and every heart seeks the ferry to cross the main...

To take a good rest in life time to time, you must know the ways to make yourself a remote island! An island no one can reach…

Between the inner and outer beaches, a strand of woods thrived: palms, palmettos, mahogany, figs, and calabash. Coconut palms and fig trees dropped enough fruit to feed the wildlife that swooped by in droves. It was so easy to catch a fish with your bare hands, Tristan and I had made a game of it during our weeks of lovemaking on the warm, supple sand. It truly was paradise.

Painted and smiling, I balance on my trapeze. Luka is poised ten metres away, his muscles shining under the lights. The wooden circles in his earlobes twitch as his jaw clenches, unclenches, clenches.

Some people never changed, could always be depended on to be exactly the way they should.

I think people throughout this island have voted for change. The task now is to manage that change.