Quote by Jon Krakauer Download Open image ““The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz's life even as he helped fill it.”” — Jon Krakauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He's difficult, isn't he?" "That's the understatement of a lifetime," I told Franz. "What a pain in the ass. I really don't know how… — Mariana Zapata Copy Share Image
“But Josef, like many boys of nineteen, was under the misapprehension that his heart had been broken a number of times, and he prided… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“...the boy saw faces disinigrate before his eyes, faces that fell to pieces, then disappeared, leaving a hole.” — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
“It was like missing a train-or something more important, something that would never come again. There was no explanation for the grief that suddenly… — Anny Tyler Copy Share Image
“A few moments after he found himself on the stage amid the garish gas and the dim scenery, acting before the innumerable faces of the void. It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own. It seemed now to play itself, he… — James Joyce Copy Share
“It was wrong and impossible and illicit and yet each minute with the boy was a gift, a scene from a story he could… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“But when he died, I saw - nothing. There was nothing left to see. It happened and it was impossible and beautiful and then… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“We were all the same. Kids from nowhere going nowhere. He always saw a light through the darkness. Knew the cracks let that light… — Dito Montiel Copy Share Image
“If Miller squinted, he could see the seventeen-year-old boy he had been under the layers of time and disappointment” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“I saw the void beneath the surface of the world; it threatened to pull me under.” — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
“What he really wanted was to tear a hole in his world and escape.” — Vladimir Nabokov Signs and Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Climbing mattered. The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything—the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“he was ready, perhaps, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilization, he intended to… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Continually question climbing pursuits. Do they draw one back to the climbing community? Or do they lead along the [inner-directed] path? This questioning generates… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“...I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
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