Anguilla Quotes

“From the air Anguilla looked narrow, flat, and scrubby, but that was only part of the picture.”
― Melinda Blanchard, A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean

“The following is a fictionalized and utterly false account of the events that most definitely did not happen on June 9-10, 1967. And yet, while all the characters in this story are little green men and women running around inside my head, the events that served as inspiration, the historical facts, as it were, must be considered no less than a sibling of the tale contained in these pages: the story I didn't write, but could have written--the book this could have been, but isn't.”
― Montague Kobbé, The Night of the Rambler

“After a summer as jam-packed with incident as Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, the fall and winter of 1967 passed with placid serenity on the island of Anguilla, as free from action as a Saul Bellow novel.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Under an English Heaven

“What the Trinidad Guardian had in 1967 called “the most empty diplomatic threat in history” had now become a reality. Two months after British economic aid to Anguilla had stopped because of the end of the Interim Agreement, the British decided to stop all economic aid.”
― Donald E. Westlake