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“I'd stopped wishing that Gareth hadn't signed up, but I couldn't stop thinking that he was walking towards death. The notion kept me awake at night and I'd watch him sleep. It had me touching him unnecessarily, and at odd times. I wanted to know what he thought about everything, and I tired him out with questions about good and evil, and whether we English were one and Germans the other. I was trying to uncover more layers so that if he died I would be left with more.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“Cartography, at its heart, was about defining one's place in the world by creating charts and measurements. Nell had lived her life by that idea, that everything could be mapped according to references and thereby understood. But she could see now that she had been paying attention to the wrong references.
It was not a map alone that made a place real.
It was the people.”
― Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers

“The more accurate a map is, the more powerful we understand it to be- that is, the world is what makes the map real. But Otto G. Lindberg achieved something even more spectacular, even if it was by serendipity. His map made part of the world real...”
― Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers

“... the important thing was to create, not capture.”
― Ally Condie, Reached