“When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to preten...”

“The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.”

“. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In ti...”

“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.”

“Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing.I know they smell just as well as I know I existed.Theyre things known from the outside.But now I know with my breathing from the back of ...”

“Existence is a priceless gift and the beauties of nature are the priceless gifts of the existence!”

“We only pass this way once..unless our significant other is reading the map..”

“The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.”

“I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.”