But North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
“Leni knew it was crazy, but it seemed to her as if they were having a conversation without saying anything, talking about books and durable friendships and overcoming insurmountable odds. Maybe they weren’t talking about Sam and Frodo at all, maybe they were talking about themselves and how they had somehow grown up and stayed kids at the same time.”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
“What is, is, and what isn’t, isn’t.”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
“Everyone up here had two stories: the life before and the life now. If you wanted to pray to a weirdo god or live in a school bus or marry a goose, no one in Alaska was going to say crap to you.”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
“And the books! She’d never seen so many. They whispered to her of unexplored worlds and unmet friends and she realized that she wasn’t alone in this new world. Her friends were here, spine out, waiting for her as they always had.”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
“Night swept in like nothing Leni had ever seen before, like the winged shadow of a creature too big and predatory to comprehend.”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
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