The Mapmaker's Daughter Quotes

“My prayers and dreams are wrapped up together, vague and contradictory. "Let me leave my mark in the world," I say to the air around me. I don't want to feel so invisible, yet I'm torn between wishing to move away from this place and wanting it to be me and I it.”
― Laurel Corona, The Mapmaker's Daughter

“The Holy One. I have never stopped believing in him. I don’t understand the idea that God wants to be worshipped one way alone, and when I feel overwhelmed by the immensity and beauty of his creation, I am glad my mother taught me to bless and praise him everywhere. My”
― Laurel Corona, The Mapmaker's Daughter

“Nothing is more practical than poetry,” he says with a quizzical smile. “It teaches us how to be human.”
― Laurel Corona, The Mapmaker's Daughter

“I understand Jesus perfectly,” Mama tells me. “I just don’t understand Christians, and I don’t think he would either.”
― Laurel Corona, The Mapmaker's Daughter

“When people think there's only one right place to stand, they say foolish things like 'You're doing it wrong.' All you have to do is go to the other side and look again at how many ways there are to see the world.”
― Laurel Corona, The Mapmaker's Daughter

“I shut my eyes and feel the memories crowding in again. My breath leaks out and time goes backward with it.”
― Laurel Corona, The Mapmaker's Daughter

“There's a knowledge deep in our bones that some lines cannot be crossed without becoming unrecognizable to ourselves-the only death truly to be feared. I know who I have been. I know who I am. I know who I will remain.”
― Laurel Corona, The Mapmaker's Daughter