Rodney Rye

“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. When I decided to go to Alaska that April, like Chris McCandless, I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“legerdemain.”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

“Some people are born fucked up. It’s in their DNA. It’s their goal in life to fuck up everyone else along with them. You know what they say. Misery by any other name is still a bitch.”
― Lotchie Burton, Dante's Revenge