Catie

“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

“Do you still love me, after everything that has happened?"
"Of course I do."
"Then you have not let me down.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“But before we head out, you need to know where you are, who's with you in this battle, and why you should say yes.
The same things we all want to know on Day One.”
― Sara Lewis Holmes, Operation Yes

“Poetry seemed to steady his gaze, and sometimes he looked at me with such intent that I imagined something of meaning might have got through.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words