The Hike

by Drew Magary

He couldn’t sail. He couldn’t camp. He couldn’t climb. He had apparently spent most of his life an inert vessel for consumer goods and services.

Even if you think I’m sleeping, I’m not. I’m saving my energy so that I can fuck you up.

Fighting was the most exhausting thing in the world.

“Unlike most people, I’m comfortable exactly where I am.”

You can adjust to anything if you’re willing to live on.

Much easier to lie in a world that doesn’t seem real to begin with.

Nothing about this land was permanent, not even him.

Every book was a door; every page a new place to hide.

“You don’t have to say anything. It’s love. Love doesn’t require an explanation.”

“There’s no honor in surviving. It’s what you’re supposed to fucking do. Half the people who survive stuff don’t even know why or how they did it.