Maps Quotes - Page 38

• It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Knowing, This Life, Knots

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• The other day I met a man who didn't know where Tripoli was. Tripoli happened to come into the conversation, and he was evidently at a loss. "Let's see," he said. "Tripoli is just down by the - er - you know. What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite, Thingumabob. I could show you in a minute on a map. It's near - what do they call it?" At this moment the train stopped, and I got out and went straight home to look at my atlas.

  A. A. Milne

  Home, Loss, Men

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• Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: 'You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.

  John Green

  Girl, Real, Ideas

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• What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

  Terry Pratchett

  Dragons, Space, Fantasy

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• I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

  Philip Roth

  Body, Toes, Shame

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Sep 26, 2016

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• I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.

  Terence McKenna

  Book, Character, Thinking

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• He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

  Andrew Vachss

  People, Way, Lord

  Andrew Vachss (2001). “Blue Belle”, p.267, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

  Stanley Wolpert

  Creating, Jinnah, Three

  "Jinnah of Pakistan". Book by Stanley Wolpert, 1984.

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• Heavenly Father's commandments are the road map He has given us to return to Him, which is the only way we will be eternally happy.

  L. Tom Perry

  Father, Way, Return

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• A hint of sensual frustration roughened his voice. “And I will curse the gods along with them, Min. Some wild monsoon raged through me as I looked at you just now. It’s left me rearranged inside, and I don’t have a map.

  Tessa Dare

  Frustration, Voice, Sensual

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• Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.

  Richard Brautigan

  Body, My Own, Your Body

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Yes, you make yourself useful, angel boy. Meanwhile, I’ll be in the bathroom.” William’s jet-black hair was dripping wet and plastered to his face. There was a fluffy white towel wrapped around his waist, displaying muscles that rivaled Paris’s own, and a tattooed treasure map that led to his man junk. Looking at his, you could see the makings of a temper so savage anyone who miraculously survived an encounter with him would end up needing therapy. And diapers. “I’ve got to finish deep conditioning my hair.” Or maybe not so savage.

  Gena Showalter

  Angel, Boys, Men

  Gena Showalter (2014). “Lords of the Underworld Collection 3: The Darkest Secret\The Darkest Surrender\The Darkest Seduction”, p.1075, Harlequin

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• Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Focus, Attention, Too Much

  Witold Gombrowicz (2011). “Cosmos: A Novel”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Who are you, what are you doing here, who is Hood, why does he want Julie, and where is Julie's mother?" "Is that all!" He wiped the red smudge off his lip with the back of his hand. "Yes. No. Why is the cauldron important, where did it go, how is Morrigan involved, where do you go when you disappear, and why do you keep stealing the maps? Okay, now that's everything.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mother, Hands, Important

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.101, Penguin

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• Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loneliness, Being Single, Single Life

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.67, A&C Black

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• Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Gabrielle Roth, John Loudon (1998). “Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit”, p.10, New World Library

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• What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded. 'The firing squad.' 'That's not the whole truth. Try again.' 'Insatiability,' he said with some bitterness. 'That's oblique but altogether too simple. Once more,' she insisted. 'One more time.' He was silent for several minutes. 'The map of a country in which I only exist by virtue of the extravagance of my metaphors.' 'Now you're being too sophisticated. And, besides, what metaphors do we have in common?

  Angela Carter

  Country, Simple, Squad

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• You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

  Sharon Shinn

  Travel, Heart, Journey

  Sharon Shinn (2006). “Mystic and Rider”, p.334, Penguin

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• The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in a furrow like the abandoned wheel of a gun carriage on a sunset field of battle and the shadows walked like cats and I looked into the white and ghostly interior of things and thought of you and I looked on their structural outsides and thought of you and was lonesome.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Sunset, Cat, Gun

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• A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

  Ned Vizzini

  Brain, Construction, Dead Ends

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• Iran’s President openly talks about wiping Israel off the map. The Iranian nuclear program is a threat, not just to my country, but to the entire region. And it’s incumbent upon us all to do what needs to be done to keep from proliferating.

  Mark Regev

  Country, Israel, Iran

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• He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers. And he kept his hand there the whole way home, even when he was reading the map and giving me headings. So I am not flying alone now after all.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Strong, Reading, Home

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.289, Egmont UK

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• Maximum Rocknroll
  didn't have a map section.
  How was I supposed to know
  that Berkeley was not
  a neighborhood of San Francisco?

  Bucky Sinister

  San Francisco, Neighborhood, Berkeley

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