“There ain't no island left for islanders like me.”
“Don't they look like ancient island princesses, marked out for sacrifice? Sent away for the sake of the islanders, to be given to the sea?”
“Every island to a child is a treasure island.”
“The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.”
“Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.”
“No man is an island,” he says. “Islands are made of dirt and rocks and trees. I don’t know any people made of such things. Therefore, people are not islands.”