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Miju was the one-year-old daughter of Jonathan Gerrish and Ellen Chung,
Ah, I remember this. Yosemite is my home territory; I've been backpacking there fifty years.
The mistakes they made are beginner's; just a few chats and smart people won't make them. But outdoorsy types will be curious, ask questions, and learn fast. “City folk” won't, typically.
“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“I dislike certainty because it feels like truth, but it isn’t. And I think I have had some inkling what it is for a whole people to become certain.”
― The King's Blood
― The King's Blood
“An old man I met in the slave camp told me once, always be positive. He died of gangrene, something it’s hard to be positive about, and he spent his last week on earth whimpering, but I’ve always tried to follow his advice, even so.”
― Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
― Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
“You only have to enforce boundaries where they’re being imposed,”
― The King's Blood
― The King's Blood
“Too many books. Too few centuries.”
― Nevernight
― Nevernight
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