Kim Kern

“A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.”
― Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire

“It is clear to me now that the universe in its truculence doesn’t permit itself to be that well known.”
― Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire

“In 1949 the Smokejumpers were still so young that they referred affectionately to all fires they jumped on as “ten o’clock fires,” as if they already had them under control before they jumped. They were still so young they hadn’t learned to count the odds and to sense they might owe the universe a tragedy.”
― Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire

“we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast