“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
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“Mental maps. Maps with edges. And for Auden, for so many of us, it's the edges of the maps that fascinate...”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken,as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But looking at maps is much more than an act of aesthetic replacement. Anyone who opens an atlas wants everything at once, without limits--the whole world. This longing will always be great, far greater than any satisfaction to be had by attaining what is desired. Give me an atlas over a guidebook any day. There is no more poetic book in the world.”
― Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
― Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
“She stopped as a map of Erilea appeared. Maps had always interested her; there was something bewitching in knowing one's precise location in relation to others on earth.”
― Throne of Glass
― Throne of Glass
“It’s the edges of the maps that fascinate ...”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
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