Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

Please do not leave me, he thought. He could not bear a world without Alli. He realized how much he relied on her from morning until night. She was his only conversation. His only smile. She prepared their meager food and always offered it to him first, even though he insisted she eat before he did. THey leaned on each other at sunsets. Holding her as they slept felt like his last connection to humanity.

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.

The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.