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“People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.”

"Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere ... off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing. When one of us dies, they scarcely know where to bury him. We have no house, no place, no people of our own ... we sit in restaurants and concert halls and look about at the hundreds of our own kind and shudder."

Crying right now - “this one half hour had given to each the same precious certainty of being beloved”

"I thought that writing the book might purge Everest from my life. It hasn't, of course. Moreover, I agree that readers are often poorly served when an author writes as an act of catharsis, as I have done here. But I hoped something would be gained by spilling my soul in the calamity's immediate aftermath, in the roil and torment of the moment."

what on earth

crying and it’s not even sad

I can’t explain how much I love this book