Maps Quotes

625 quotes by 508 authors

[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but… — Geraldine McCaughrean
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps… — Catherynne M. Valente
I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty… — Reif Larsen
When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail… — Jodi Picoult
I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as… — Anne Sexton
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to… — Karen Marie Moning
A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand. — Beryl Markham
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden… — Thomas Pynchon
BLACKBERRY. Also know as "Crackberry" for it's addictive qualities. It is the modern girl's weapon. It allow her to bid on ebay while walking down… — Nina Garcia
People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign… — Holly Black
Do you ever get the feeling like you already know the entire contents of the universe somewhere inside of your head, as if you were… — Reif Larsen
If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies… — Laurie Halse Anderson
The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We are taught to… — Jack D. Forbes
All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure… — Frederick Buechner
Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what's there in someone else's words.… — Joey Comeau
Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't… — Seth Godin
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds,… — David Mitchell
Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a… — Hugo Hamilton
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never… — Herman Melville
Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. Whatâ€™s more, using a brilliant mixture… — Patrick Rothfuss

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