The Hike Quotes

“Every book was a door; every page a new place to hide.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“My favorite part of the party is when the party is over. When I don't feel obligated to have a good time, and I can just sit and chill with whoever's left to chill with, you know?”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“This future you live in . . . would I like it?” “Honestly, it’s probably not that different from the world you know. Some people are happy. Some people are angry. There are wars. I don’t know if time makes much of a difference. The world changes, but people act the way people always do.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“At 1 A.M. a parking garage feels like a crime scene in waiting.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“Thanks for everything, Pennsylvania, but fuck you eternally.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“You probably don't remember that, do you? Depression has a way of vaporizing big parts of your memory. Important parts.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“This is your life and the afterlife merged together in one perfect, endless existence.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“The world changes, but people act the way people always do.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“Sometimes you get discouraged
Because I am so small
And always leave fingerprints
On furniture and walls
But every day I'm growing up
And soon I'll be so tall
That all those little handprints
Will be hard to recall
So here's a special handprint
Just so you can say
This is how my fingers looked
When I placed them here today.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“Why don't you crawl up out of that door and go get fucked by a turtle?"
That's completely unrealistic, anatomically speaking. That's not even something the turtle would want.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“She kept silent for fifty miles as he looked out his window at the last gasps of fall in the distant hills - pretty red and yellow swaths of foliage surrounded by sad patches of gray, like an unfinished oil painting.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“leave your candy-ass alone on this beach.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“It was night, and even if any good Samaritan saw the smoke, it wasn't like they would come running. This was America. No one was lost in America. If they saw the smoke, they would say, "Looks like someone's having a fire!" and then go have a burger.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“There was nothing to confront here at this beach: no monsters, no past, no future. Everyone left him alone, the ultimate desire of any middle-aged man. The safety of it all wooed him. Coddled him.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“This future you live in . . . would I like it?” “Honestly, it’s probably not that different from the world you know. Some people are happy. Some people are angry. There are wars. I don’t know if time makes much of a difference. The world changes, but people act the way people always do.” “Do you think I might be able to pilot this”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“Won’t be any easier to walk up there five minutes from now.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“When you're happy, you don't question how that came to be.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“You have chambers inside you for all that grief and rage, don't you? ... Tell me: What would you do with all that space if it were empty? Aren't you tired of putting everything in there and leaving it?”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“He had suffered depression as a teenager, and the worst thing about it was that he knew when it was coming. He could feel the dread wafting in, a soft breeze through a cracked window. One little taste of the hopelessness and he knew that more was on the way.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“My friend, just because God loves you does not mean He can save you from suffering.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“His whole life was just taking his phone out and putting it back in again.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“just remember that everything bad can be made good if you know how to use it.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“There comes a point in life when you’ve seen so much that hardly anything surprises you or bothers you, and that’s a shitty moment. Wisdom is so terribly overrated.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“Be at a remove. Be analytical, distant, unemotional. Keep yourself busy and the burden of time eases.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“There comes a point in life when you've seen so much that hardly anything surprises you or bothers you, and that's a shitty moment. Wisdom is so terribly overrated.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“Yeah, amigo. I’m the crab.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“So soon? You should stay here a while and rest up. You look like shit.” “No. My God and my queen are calling me. I will not rest here a second longer than I have to.” He turned to Ben. “But you know, there’s something to be said for never seeing you again.” “Well, I love you, too, Cisco.” “No, I mean this. I do not want this friendship to linger. I do not want it to wither and die. It will end here, as strong as it’s ever been. And this is a good thing. I don’t want to be around long enough to disappoint you.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“He had apparently spent most of his life an inert vessel for consumer goods and services.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“Maybe the path went in a circle. Maybe there was a more gradual, friendly slope back up the mountain so he wouldn't have to double back. He could keep moving forward but still end up home.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little old lady.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike