Don’t Go There!: From Chernobyl to North Korea—One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places

by Adam Fletcher

I hadn’t realised then that the only way you know that something has value is if you find yourself willing to make sacrifices for it. That’s what elevates it, helps you separate life’s noise from its signal. Just as monogamy gives a relationship one sacred act you agree to do with each other and no one else.