# Quote — Samuel R. Delany, Neveryona

> “It’s a map of a non-existent coast under an imaginary constellation on an impossible sky in—” he grunted, twisting something—“the middle of a ring of meaningless numbers. That’s why it’s powerful. That’s why it’s magic.”

- Author: [Samuel R. Delany](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany.md)
- Book: [Neveryona](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona.md)
- Page: 365
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany#Nevery%C3%B3na_(1983)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/its-a-map

## More from this book

> Myself, I suspect it’s a kind of madness: the madness that makes one repeat whatever one is trained to repeat.

p. 367 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/myself-i-suspect.md)

> For better or for worse, she found herself putting aside fear in favor of curiosity.

p. 163 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/for-better-or-for.md)

> To be a bandit is better than to be a slave!

p. 86 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/to-be-a-bandit.md)