Ellen Scout Valente

“All landscapes eventually turn to land, the gold of the imagination to the lead of reality”
― V.S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men

“I had not been in love before.
It was like a wheel rolling downhill.”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“Equally important, anyone stupid enough to contemplate invading America would soon reflect on the fact that it contains hundreds of millions of guns, which are available to a population that takes its life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness very seriously.”
― Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

“Look again at the standard Mercator map and you see that Greenland appears to be the same size as Africa, and yet Africa is actually fourteen times the size of Greenland! You could fit the USA, Greenland, India, China, Spain, France, Germany and the UK into Africa and still have room for most of Eastern Europe. We know Africa is a massive land mass, but the maps rarely tell us how massive.”
― Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics