Andrew Shoemaker

“Mistakes. In his mental journal he listed them to tell his father, listed all the mistakes. He had made a new bow, with slender limbs and a more fluid, gentle pull, but could not hit the fish though he sat in the water and was, in the end, surrounded by a virtual cloud of small fish. It was infuriating. He would pull the bow back, set the arrow just above the water, and when the fish was no more than an inch away release the arrow.”
― Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

“events were burned into his memory and so he used them to remember time,”
― Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

“hurt”
― Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

“them up and ate them, which helped”
― Gary Paulsen, Hatchet