Islands of an uncharted archipelago ...

"She has known some happiness there, a privileged moment of revelation, a glimpse into an unexplored part of herself, into something beyond herself. But she is also suspicious of such moment; they do not last, and one never knows where and when they might recur, like islands of an uncharted archipelago. "

Alison Anderson 

Venetian Ladies Listening to a Serenade by Frank Cadogan Cowper