Anything Worth Doing Quotes

“...one of those moments had just passed, a moment in which normalcy becomes crisis and then flips back so fast it's hard to hang onto the significance of what has just happened" (143).”
― Jo Deurbrouck, Anything Worth Doing: A true story of adventure, friendship and tragedy on the last of the West's great rivers

“On a shrunken planet where nearly every mountain bears bootprints and every mile of river has been run, being 'first' tends to require creative task definition" (111).”
― Jo Deurbrouck, Anything Worth Doing: A true story of adventure, friendship and tragedy on the last of the West's great rivers

“Truth was, if safety was the first consideration, Clancy's dory was exactly the wrong boat. But if safety was the first consideration this was also the wrong day, the wrong river, and the wrong plan, one solitary boat racing down a flooded maelstrom for hundreds of miles, negotiating dozens of rapids as fast as skill, strength, and current allowed, through cold night and hot day and what would certainly become judgement-clouding fatigue.”
― Jo Deurbrouck, Anything Worth Doing: A true story of adventure, friendship and tragedy on the last of the West's great rivers