“Sometimes life isn't about the end. It's not always about tomorrow and the day after that-what we achieve over the years and how we leave the world. Sometimes it's about today...Any of us could die tomorrow regardless of the horde. We could get sick or be injured or anything else. That's the risk we take waking up each morning and stepping outside.” Page 176 Book:The Dark and Hollow Places Source: The Dark and Hollow Places
“But life is not evens and odds and solving for x. And sadness? Sadness is an equation made of all variables.” Page 176 Book:The Start of Me and You Source: The Start of Me and You
“Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust.” ClimbingNatural HistoryPage 176 Book:Last Places: A Journey in the North Source: Last Places: A Journey in the North