"You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs. "
— Terry Pratchett (The Color of Magic)

"Edmund: Girls arent really good at storing maps in their heads.
Lucy: Thats 'cause we have something in them. "
— Prince Caspian (the movie)

"Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was happy, in that place I left my coat behind after a party, that is where I met my love; I cried there once, I was heartsore; but felt better round the corner once I saw the hills of Fife across the Forth, things of that sort, our personal memories, that make the private tapestry of our lives."
— Alexander McCall Smith (Love Over Scotland)

"He comes down next to me, and when I hold out my hand, he takes it. Our fingers lace together. And in that feeling, that perfect feeling of our hands and fingers pressed together, I want to tell him everything. I want to tell him about Josh, and his sister, Emily. I want to tell him about tall, crazy Gert. I want to tell him about bridges and funerals, and most of all, maps. More than anything else, I want to tell him about myself. I want to tell him that I know what things look like from above now. There's so much I want to tell him, because I know he'll understand."
— Shawn Klomparens (Jessica Z.)

"A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world."
— Rebecca Solnit (Wanderlust: A History of Walking)

"They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something."
— Gerald Durrell (My Family and Other Animals)

"'That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.'"
— Gideon Defoe (The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists: A Novel)