Nesomania Quotes

#1. At times, working in big cities far from nature, I have been sick with nesomania, and I think the reason is this: On the islands one has both the time and the inclination to communicate with the stars and the trees and the waves drifting ashore, one lives more intensely.

James A. Michener

#2. My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

Paul Theroux

#3. Luck is just a step away from fate.

Ranae Rose

#4. I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#5. I believe in my writing.

Barry Manilow

#6. I don't know how to say good-bye to you," she said. He smoothed her hair off her face. He'd never seen her so fair. "Then don't." "But I have to go. ... " "So go," he said with his hands on her cheeks. "But don't say good-bye. It's not good-bye.

Rainbow Rowell

#7. Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see.

Louisa May Alcott