"The lamb baa-ed vigorously as Mary dragged it into the manicure room, and Zel winced. She really should insist Julie come work, She could use the help, plus it would mean extra mother-daughter time--a..."
- Sarah Beth Durst
"But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do."
- Jon Krakauer
"I don’t want to know what time it is. I don’t want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters."
"Society, you're a crazy breed."
- Eddie Vedder
"Alex here. (...) Ron, I really enjoy all the help you have given me and the times we spent together. I hope that you will not be too depressed by our parting. It may be a very long time before we see ..."
"My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?"
- Charlotte Eriksson
"The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive."
"Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul."
"I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for drea..."
"When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you.."