“I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.”

“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”

“If you don't ask, the answer is always no.”

“And the answer is yes. I have loved you. I always have, and I always will.”

“I don't think it would have been possible … You always have choices, yes, but I don't think there was any way of stuffing the genie back into the bottle.”

“People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.”

“People don't get it. He didn't even have a fuckin' map; what kind of idiot? THAT was the point. There's no blank spots on the map anymore, anywhere on earth. If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.”

“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Aliie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.”

“Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map…. A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.”

“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”