The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.
Jon KrakauerSometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.
Jon KrakauerI'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.
Jon KrakauerIf 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.
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