Znikomek

“I had been hired to prepare the mountain for the people instead of the other way around.”
― Anatoli Boukreev, The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

“In the beginning the point was not to have a point, to escape the world in which everyone had to have a job, a desk, an office.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City

“This crappy, mean, broken-down school took five years of my life. I’d be mad, but for the fact that it taught me more about who I was than anything else I have ever done. It also made me think that modern life is rubbish for so many people. How few choices it gives them. How it lays out in front of them a future that bores most of them so much they can’t wait to get smashed out of their heads each weekend. How little most people are believed in, and how much it asks of so many people for so little in return.”
― James Rebanks, The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape

“And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey—a look of longing. “Lord! I wish I could go.”

“Don’t you like it here?”

“Sure. It’s all right, but I wish I could go.”

“You don’t even know where I’m going.”

“I don’t care. I’d like to go anywhere.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America