Border patrol Quote by Valeria Luiselli

“Death continues to stalk the streets, stealing the souls of our children as they sleep. We're running out of fingers to close their eyes,…

— Joanne Owen

“We are a country built by immigrants, dreams, daring, and opportunity. We are a country built by the horrors of slavery and genocide, the…

— Libba Bray

“Was it not I who populated with them all these pages—just recently no more than white rectangular deserts? Without me, would they ever be…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“We may forget our dead, but dead will never forget us. They call upon us from the border of unknown, reminding us of our…

— Pierre Van Paassen

“But in the country death comes, uninvited, during the day. It takes fishermen in their longboats. It grabs children by the ankles as they…

— Louise Penny

“Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Shadows of deserts are as beautiful as the shining lights on the surface of oceans!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I’m haunted. We all are, I guess. We’re parentless, friendless, unloved, abandoned. The spirits of our deceased emotional anchors and proofs of existence will…

— Jason S. Hornsby

“I found that this was a desert region so obscure that the designers of atlases typically stitch page bindings directly over that very latitude…

— Adrienne Mayor

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and increasingly; the…

— John Betjeman

Death is shot through with the details and colours of the lives that were lived.

— Michael Rosen