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“My Dictionary of Lost Words. She [Lizzie] was its custodian, I realised. And she'd wanted the words to be found.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“[author's note]
By putting Esme among the words, I was able to imagine the effect they might have had on her, and the effect she might have had on them.”
― 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