Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!
L.M. MontgomeryTags: growing-up change anne marry island
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
Aldous HuxleyTags: inspirational metaphysics huxley island metaphysical-beliefs
No man is an island, entire of itself.
John DonneTags: mankind isolation connectedness island
Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
Jeanette WintersonTags: metaphor poet island jeanette-winterson sexing-the-cherry
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.
Luke A.M. BrownTags: novel lamb island non-silence
Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny.
Pat ConroyTags: destiny luck landscape south-carolina island beautiful-writing
Man muss wohl als Frau auch immer ein bisschen Nazi sein.
Hallgrímur HelgasonA sound of laughter was heard-they turned sharply. Vera Claythorne was standing in the yard. She cried out in a high shrill voice, shaken with wild bursts of laughter:
"Do they keep bees on this island? Tell me that. Where do we go for honey? Ha! ha!"
They stared at her uncomprehendingly. It was as though the sane well-balanced girl had gone mad right before their eyes. She went on in that high unnatural voice:
"Don't stare like that! As though you thought I was mad. It's sane enough what I'm asking. Bees, hives, bees! Oh, don't you understand? Haven't you read that idiotic rhyme? It's up in all of your bedrooms-put it there for you to study! We might have come here straightaway if we'd had sense. Seven little soldiers chopping up sticks. And the next verse, I know the whole thing by heart, I tell you! Six little soldier boys playing with a hive. And that's why I'm asking-do they keep bees on this island- isn't it damned funny...?
The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic.
“Well,” said Jack at last. “What do you think? Shall we run away, and live on the secret island?”
“Yes!” whispered all the children.
“Let’s!
Tags: children secret lonely mysterious beautiful island running-away
The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.
Enid BlytonTags: children nature secret mysterious june island willows haze enchanting
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