Quote by Catherynne M. Valente Download Open image ““What is a map, but a thing that gets you where you're going? -Mr. Map”” — Catherynne M. Valente ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“… That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home—someday, somehow. … ” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The world seems to be divided between people who like maps and those who don’t.” — Michael Siegel Copy Share Image
“When you’re a cartographer, having to make maps sort of comes with the territory.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Anyone can read a map, but its the choice of which path one follows that makes the difference.” — R. A. Lang Copy Share Image
When I saw him I thought I could curl up inside him and go to sleep and never wake up." "Men are no good… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The cicada lies in the earth for seventeen years. It is warm and dark there, it is soft and wet. Its little legs curl… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“September put her hand on the grip of the Rivet Gun. She’d only just gotten it, and she’d promised to take copious notes for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You see, the future is a kind of stew, a soup, a vichyssoise of the present and the past. That's how you get the… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
