The Mapmaker's Daughter Quotes

“I know- and I knew then- from long and varied experience that addressing anything important when angry is a mistake.”
― Katherine Nouri Hughes, The Mapmaker's Daughter

“I have never seen anger in action lead to anything good. The best it can do is rearrange what’s wrong, which makes things worse because it lasts longer.”
― Katherine Nouri Hughes, The Mapmaker's Daughter

“the end part of death is comprehensible, and the forever part is not.”
― Katherine Nouri Hughes, The Mapmaker's Daughter

“The experienced man must . . .
see what is necessary before it becomes necessary and when the time comes to act, he must not ask how.”
― Katherine Nouri Hughes, The Mapmaker's Daughter

“I called for Esther when I heard the news. I said it seemed the worst that happens is in the name of God. She said, “You mean in the name of religion. There is a difference.” She never missed a chance to correct me. I told her I knew the difference. “In fact,” she went on, “the worst that happens is in the name of order.”
― Katherine Nouri Hughes, The Mapmaker's Daughter

“The normally imperturbable Grand Vizier, was more than incensed; he was disconcerted.”
― Katherine Nouri Hughes, The Mapmaker's Daughter

“You are not a credit to yourself at the time being,” she said.”
― Katherine Nouri Hughes, The Mapmaker's Daughter

“Fear is a garden, fertile as Eden before the Fall.”
― Katherine Nouri Hughes, The Mapmaker's Daughter