On The Island Quotes
When I looked at a map in town, Rhode Island seemed lost up there in the corner. A state so small and crowded, there didn't seem to be room for a person at all.
...here on Coney Island, we learn to take each other as we are.
The sweet-smelling aroma of the island spices still hung in the air. It filled his nostrils and titillated his appetite all over again. His appetite drove him mad for something much more than food.
Nothing touches your skin of sweat(meltdown of oceanic kisses)when the purple lightwhispers to the moon in silent moonlit clarity
He cupped my face in his hands and wiped my tears with his thumbs."Better?""Yes."He looked into my eyes and said, "I'll never leave you alone, Anna. Not if I can help it.
It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island.
She used to be all right, Una, when we were kids. I liked that she wasn't fussed about her antlers.
A billion stars above us coat the sky white. It would have been beautiful back home, but not here. Here it is the ever present reminder that we are all alone and insignificant.
This island is a hard place to survive and I fear that it has made everything resistant to the cruel hand of death.
The bright blue sky remained cloudless, and the aquamarine ocean still crashed gently onto the white sand beach, but the scene was suddenly warped. Twisted, as I processed Thad's words.
This is Long Island, land of the rushed, home of the stressed.
They kissed in the middle of the sidewalk, letting the crowds of people flow around them like water around an island.
Regret and remorse” is a dialectic issue about what has been done, about what should have been done and about what should not have been done. ( “Island of regret. Island of remorse” )
Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.
:...For animals and birds are like people, too, though they do not talk the same or do the same things. Without them the earth would be an unhappy place.
Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island!
The forest is blanketed by the greenest ferns and moss and bonsai-like trees, a wild majesty that beckons hobbits and pixies and elves and dreamers.
If you were to ask Jarod Kintz what his personal favourite joke was, he'd say the one with the island. The big one next to New Zealand.-Stefan D and Jarod Kintz
But every tomorrow has led to today— to us being alone, hungry, and cold on an unknown island somewhere in the South Pacific.
I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.
A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.
