Final-lines Quote by Richard Yañez

“Life and the work on the mountain had left their mark. Everything about him was warped and crooked. His back seemed to be heading…

— Robert Seethaler

“He ascended the mountain in darkness, no lamplight, a world black and silver and blue. The moon lay scattered through the woods in blades,…

— Taylor Brown

“Mountains have long been a geography for pilgrimage, place where people have been humbled and strengthened, they are symbols of the sacred center. Many…

— Joan Halifax

“The pull of the mountain is like gravity for my soul.”

— Heather Day Gilbert

“And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that mountain grandeur…

— Henry David Thoreau

“As nighttime turned into dawn, the mountain seemed to travel down the street. It advanced on tiptoe, fully prepared to be shooed away. Lucy…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“It felt at that moment unarguable that a horizon line might exert as potent or pull upon the mind as a mountain's summit.”

— Robert Macfarlane

“I felt as though I were plunging into something new and quite abnormal. I had the strangest and most vivid impressions, such as I…

— Herzog Maurice

“My child, when a mountain appears on the journey, we try to go to the left, then to the right; we try to find…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“Higher and higher he climbed. His strength came from somewhere deep inside himself and also seemed to come from the outside as well. After…

— Louis Sachar

“It took the mountain top, it seems to me now, to give me the sensation of independence. It was as if I'd discovered something…

— Eudora Welty

“I am the mountain and the sculptor, losing myself, finding myself, revealing what was there all along.”

— M.K. Asante