Purpose Quote by Adrienne Rich

“I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that…

— Adrienne Rich

“I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard…

— Abdulrazak Gurnah

“All around, the sea was full of ships. Some were burning, some were sinking, some had been smashed to splinters.”

— George R.R. Martin

“it. I was venturing into a wilderness many had explored before me, crossing the threshold separating those who had killed from those who had…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“We held on to each other and looked out at the sea. It was impossibly large and full of beauty and danger in equal…

— Paula McLain

“I had thought once past there my reward will begin, but now everything seems kind of empty and I find I already have my…

— Mark Woods

“And then we were all lifted and hurled away from there, down back the way we had come, around a bend, into a darkway…

— Harlan Ellison

“It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more…

— John D. MacDonald

“I sought the sea. There was a small comfort in it--in how it never ended, how there were other lands beyond it that I…

— Susan Fletcher

“The galleys...had been dirven onto the rocks of Skagos, the isle of unicorns and cannibals where even the Blind Bastard had feared to land.”

— George R.R. Martin

“the map was one thing and the land quite another.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Devastation is in fact the raw material from which the best journeys are forged and the richest roads are paved.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough