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“I knew more than anyone that nature didn’t care for reputation, age, gender, or background. It was equally indifferent to personality: the mountain couldn’t give a shit if the people exploring it were morally nasty or nice.”
― Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
― Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
“I tried putting chopsticks from the kitchen drawer into my hair and it felt like it was over doing things a bit, so I put them back. I even considered painting the chopsticks black because they were brown, and black would’ve suited my outfit better. Yet the fact that I considered painting them at all caused me to be embarrassed at myself, so I decided to ditch the accessories that were at one time used to stuff pad Thai into someone’s face. Painted or not, you can’t change the reality of what chopsticks are or the main way that they’ve been used for, like, centuries. Eons, even. So let a chopstick be a chopstick, and my hair can be what it is, too.”
― A Room Called Earth
― A Room Called Earth
“The mountains were just about the best therapy a person could experience.”
― Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
― Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
“At the beginning of the decade, the people I was close to seemed like friends for life, people I could never imagine not seeing every day. But life happens. Love happens. Loss happens. Change and growth happen at different paces for different people, and sometimes the paces just don’t line up. It’s devastating if I think too much about it, so I usually don’t.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
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