Take Me with You

by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Sometimes stuff just happens, you know? There’s not always some simple thing to point to, like if you just don’t do this, nothing can go wrong. Something can always go wrong. But we don’t like to think that way, so we point a lot.”

There has to be more. That’s what the climbing is to me. It’s the more. That’s the thing that makes me feel like life is enough.

“Maybe we go exactly when it’s our time to go, no sooner and no later, and the odds don’t mean a thing.”

Everybody is a good person and a bad person at the same time. The only real variation is in the balance.

When a person has a bigger good side, we call him a good person. But it’s never absolute.”