Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

If you don't take it, I'm going to throw it away," Alex cheerfully retorted. "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.

The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)