“We were just looking at maps...”
“A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.”
“If I were the King’s official mapmaker, I’d also be the second largest landholder (after the King, of course). Would I own the land? Of course—just look at all the official maps.”
“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. Or we could get wicked drunk and just go.”
“They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.”
“I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.”