Quotes About Island

The second spell I cast beneath it. It was an enchantment woven into the island itself, every bird and beast and grain of sand, every leaf and rock and drop of water. I marked them, and all the generations in their bellies, with Telegonus' name. If ever she did break through that smoke, the island would rise up in his defence, the beasts and birds, the branches and rocks, the roots in the earth.

I will not be silenced on my own island.

island was full of them. What I really wanted was a wild strawberry, to slip sweetly down my irritable throat, and so I told that brown hull. It changed so fast my thumb sank into its soft, red body.

I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was.

Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever.

Omul nu este o insul?. - Prostii, aiurea! Fiecare din noi este o insul?. Dac? nu am fi, am înnebuni pe loc. Între aceste insule sunt vapoare, avioane, telefoane, radio - ce vrei. Oamenii r?mân insule. Insule care se pot scufunda È™i pot disp?rea pentru vecie. Tu eÈ™ti o insul? care nu s-a scufundat. Nu poÈ›i fi atât de pesimist! Nu este posibil.

and then politely asked me who I was, and fulsomely, where I had learnt such excellent French. We exchanged a few sentences. He himself was here for only a day or two. He wasn't French, he said, but Belgian. He found Phraxos 'pittoresque, mais moins belle que Délos'.

I sold them to a dealer named Bruce Cable, owns a nice bookstore on Camino Island, Florida.

We be both of one blood, of one country and in one island.

Then sang forth the Nine, Apollo's garland:–yet didst thou divine Such home-bred glory, that they cry'd in vain, "Come hither, Sister of the Island!

Their very independence from Great Britain resulted, as Thomas Paine had predicted it would in 1776, from the implausibility that "a Continent [could] be perpetually governed by an island."12

Island of Lesbos

Is she unhappy? But he would have laughed at such a mewling question, and he would have been right to. My witchcraft, the island, my lion, all of them sprang from her transformation. There was no honesty in regretting what had given me my life.

But I barely noticed these things. I thought only of the small island flung out somewhere in front of me, and the fair-haired boy I hoped I would find there.

I could have cast an illusion over the island to keep them away, I had the power to do it.

I thought only of the small island flung out somewhere in front of me, and the fair-haired boy I hoped I would find there.

Be witness to the power of Circe, witch of Aiaia.

Paul Mokko avait été proclamé Sauveur du pays, parce qu'il avait le jour même tenu tête aux travailleurs: «Il a schlagué tous ces sales rats», disait-on. Et j'appris que grâce aux lézards, il avait été décoré ; et que par un tour de notaire, il avait arraché à deux «galeux» de l'Est une tranche du pays, et qu'on l'avait élu maire le jour même ; et que déjà l'île tout entière voyait en lui une «lumière».

Could I but end my days in this charming isle, without evermore stirring from it, or seeing a single inhabitant of the continent, who could remind me of all those calamities which have for so many years united to overwhelm me!…

although he wielded supreme power over the whole island,

after the conquest he received 300 of the island's 1,200 hides for the use of the Church.

Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam, the pilot of some small night-founded skiff, deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, with fixed anchor in his scaly rind, moors by his side under the lee, while night invests the sea, and wished morn delays.

An agent named Dillon Koch picked them up at the Staten Island terminal in a Chevy Equinox, a small gray SUV picked, Koch said, for its anonymity. "You look at it, and you don't see it," he said.

Her self was an island.