“Quintana of Charyn's body was a map of hatred.”

“Map age genes place of origin
and love's lineaments.For mapped onto each body is love.Carthography of one's own country
or the contours of a foreign land”

“Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.”

“She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.”

“The map is not the territory … The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map…”

“They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.”

“I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.”

“Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.”

“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.”

“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.”