Essential Maps for the Lost Quotes

“Courage, traveler. Weird. It's coming from inside her. Hold your little map and shout to the darkness, it says. Shout this: You are nothing, darkness, against something as old as love. Shout: I will walk right through you, darkness, because I am, and I will be. This boldness-she's felt it before. In the truck, when she first saw Billy. No, before that, when she was brave, so brave, and brought Anna to the shore. This is how you save yourself? This small voice inside? This microscopic cell of belief, allowed to divide? Yep. Uh-huh. The voice is your own personal sword and shield-remember that. Remember that every hard day.”
― Deb Caletti, Essential Maps for the Lost

“When the story gets sad and terrible, when there are too many mistakes to count, hang on for the beautiful parts.”
― Deb Caletti, Essential Maps for the Lost

“More, much more, will happen after this. Things involving maps and books and true love and tragedy, tragedy like you wouldn't believe. But fine things too. The best ones.”
― Deb Caletti, Essential Maps for the Lost

“but love is always a risk. Life is. You could step into the street and get hit by a car, but then again, you could step into the street and get to the other side.”
― Deb Caletti, Essential Maps for the Lost

“Stuff always happens, whether a day from now or years, stuff that will make a person glad to be alive, if you can somehow just ride through the self-hatred and the gouging and the bad.”
― Deb Caletti, Essential Maps for the Lost

“She has spoken and survived.”
― Deb Caletti, Essential Maps for the Lost

“She is exquisitely elsewhere.”
― Deb Caletti, Essential Maps for the Lost