Alorah

“Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.”
― Anatoli Boukreev, The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

“Let’s get you up. We should be going. We don’t know what your deranged ex-husband might be up to. I wouldn’t put it past him to call a Quarantine Patrol.” “He’s not my ex. We’re not divorced.” “You are now. By the power vested in me.” “What power vested in you?” “You know how captains of ships can marry people? Little-known fact, firemen can divorce people as well. Come on, up with you.”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman

“Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.”
― Anatoli Boukreev

“She’s bundled up in a parka even though it’s still in the mid-fifties at eight o’clock, because she’s down to a hundred and ten pounds (her doctor routinely scolds her about her weight) and she feels the cold. Even more than the cold, she feels the damp. Yet she stays, because there’s a poem to be had tonight, if she can just get her fingers under its lid and open it up.”
― Stephen King, Holly