Status Updates From Archipelago of the Sun

"The relationship between books and boats" he went on confidently, "isn't as simple as you think. People who write books sense that a crisis is coming. They know that any civilization could sink into the sea. So," he concluded dramatically, "all libraries are boats."

"Okay, I get it—there were people who went West," he retorted. "Toward the setting sun, which makes you imagine the future. And the East is where the sun crawls up over the horizon, so some people think of it as the past. But can't you also think of traveling toward the East as trying to reach a memory? That's what we want to do, so we'll keep on going, no matter what."

“Towns are made from stone and brick, so they don't vanish so easily. Countries, on the other hand, are only promises, recorded on documents—in other words, they're made of paper.”