Status Updates From Miracle In The Andes

later, will face the inevitable nearness of death.
‘We all have our own personal Andes’»

«I’d always though of my story as something unique, something so extreme and outrageous that only those who had been there could genuinely understand what we had been through. But in its essence - the essence of human emotion - it is the lost familiar story in the world. We all, at times, face hopelessness and despair. We all experience grief, abandonment and crushing loss. And all of us, sooner or

«The sun will come up tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that. Look forward, you will have a future. You will live a life.»

«Then I looked up. At the end of the hallway, standing motionless in the thin fluorescent light, was the slim, bowed figure of my father. He pressed himself against me, touching me, convincing himself that I was real.»

«Suddenly my thoughts were disturbed by shouting outside my door, and what sounded like a scuffle in the hallway.
‘My brother is in there! I have to see him! Please!’
In seconds she was in my arms.»

«can you imagine how beautiful this would be if we were not dead men? We may be walking to our deaths, but I would rather walk to meet my death than wait for it to come to me»

«We have been through so much. Now let’s go die together.»

«I handed him one of the tiny red shoes my mother had purchased in Mendoza for my nephew
‘Keep this. I’ll keep the other one. When I come back for you, we’ll have a pair again»

«Like Carlitos, I had seen beauty in the mountains, but for me, it was a lethal beauty, and we were the blemish on that beauty that the mountain wanted to erase»