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The Cartographers QUOTES

The Cartographers QUOTES

1 " Maps are love letters written to times and places their makers had explored. "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

2 " We were going to breathe passion and life back into cartography and make it something no one had ever seen before. "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

3 " The older woman stood back up at last, holding a single envelope in her hands. “This.” She paused, then handed it over to Nell. “I shouldn’t give it to you, but … once someone’s gone, I know how much even the smallest tokens can mean. "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

4 " Grief can raze a face far worse than ten times as many years. (Romi's chapter, Libby @p735/921). "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

5 " They laughed, but there was a mercenary undercurrent to the joke that made Nell shiver. She glanced around the circle nervously as they all toasted again. Now, everyone looked a lot less friendly. And a lot more suspicious. "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

6 " I hope the maps are good where you are. "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

7 " State University of New York at New Paltz, "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

8 " They all were grinning widely, as though at the moment the photo had been taken, they had been laughing out loud at something—her father most of all. "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

9 " We’ve been meeting so often these past few days, sometimes I forget we’re not in the boardroom still, discussing library business. I truly didn’t mean to gossip about your father at his own funeral.” “I’m glad to know the police are looking into it,” Nell said. "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

10 " It is embarrassing. No one with a shred of respect for their reputation has ever even heard of it, besides the two of them and some of their drinking buddies,” Claire replied. "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

11 " They told us they’d found a town, but not just any town . . . a hidden place, just a few minutes down the road. So invisible that you could drive or walk by every day for your entire life and never know it was there, accessible only if you had the key. You can imagine our reactions. “That,” Romi finally said, “is the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard.” It sounded like something out of a children’s fantasy novel. "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

12 " Even to this day, the Fra Mauro map was considered one of the finest pieces of medieval cartography in existence. "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

13 " Thousands upon thousands of reproductions of real ancient or rare works of art, mass printed onto modern, acid-free paper, then mass crinkled, or mass aged, or mass hand-decorated with anachronistic symbols, all able to be ordered with two-day shipping direct to a doorstep and hung in "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

14 " The cartography field was small, and it always ended the same way. Once a potential employer realized who she was, and that none other than the elder Dr. Young himself had banished her from the industry all those years ago, she always stalled out at the next stage in the process. "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

15 " How many years had her life been only her small, dingy apartment, endless subway rides, and the cramped offices of Classic? Everything on Fifth Avenue was three times brighter and louder, as if someone had turned up a dial on every surface. "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

16 " If there was anything more tragic than the disgraceful demise of Nell’s career, it had been the untimely end to her mother’s: Dr. Tamara Jasper-Young. "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

17 " She could hardly fathom it. This was academia, for crying out loud. Rivals wrote counterarguments and published rebuttal papers. They didn’t kill. "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

18 " I’m sorry, Swann,” she said, looking down. “It was wrong of me to avoid you for so long. And especially after everything you did to try to help, in the beginning.” She put a hand up to stop his protests. “I know about all the calls you made, the interviews you tried to get me at smaller branches, the old colleagues you begged— "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

19 " He was from a gigantic one, several generations all crammed together in the same ancient house on Long Island. "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers

20 " Discovering the needle in the haystack beneath them all this time and being catapulted to full researcher, or even some kind of specialist? "

― Peng Shepherd , The Cartographers