To become a climber was to join a self-contained, rabidly idealistic society, largely unnoticed and surprisingly uncorrupted by the world at large.
“You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep limping around on that crutch? It's the other way around, it's what you *do* that makes you who you are.”
― Animal Dreams
― Animal Dreams
“I had just dropped out of medicine in my first year of residency, a few months shy of becoming a licensed M.D. I'd discovered there was something serious, mainly a matter of nerve and perhaps empathy, that stood in my way.”
― Animal Dreams
― Animal Dreams
“I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.”
― Animal Dreams
― Animal Dreams
“In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height.”
― Animal Dreams
― Animal Dreams
“Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.”
― Animal Dreams
― Animal Dreams
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