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“The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible? Always, we were directed to the map, to memorizing the details on the map….. we became so comfortable with the map, with the dimensions of it, and the thought of what it contained that it stopped us from asking why or even what.” P66

“Even though no threat had revealed itself, it seemed important to eliminate any possible moment of silence. As if somehow the blankness of the walls fed off of silence, and that something might appear in the spaces between our words if we were not careful.”

“She said with the kind of innocent confidence that could only come from a life lived in the mists of nationalism.”