Under the Northern Lights Quotes

“Because he gave us free will. Because he didn’t want mindless automatons who loved him simply because we were told to love him. He gave us the freedom to choose to love him and his creations . . . or not to. And maybe that was a mistake, but if you think about it, what else could he do?”
― S.C. Stephens, Under the Northern Lights

“Loneliness was crushing; that was why isolation was used to torture people. And no one wanted to be tortured. No one.”
― S.C. Stephens, Under the Northern Lights

“Live each day expecting the worst possible thing to happen, and you just might get to see the next day.”
― S.C. Stephens, Under the Northern Lights

“While good deeds were praised, then forgotten, horrific deeds were forever etched on our psyches.”
― S.C. Stephens, Under the Northern Lights

“For every ounce of vileness, there was an equal—if not greater—amount of goodness. Sometimes you just had to look harder to find it.”
― S.C. Stephens, Under the Northern Lights

“Once I was at my plane’s cruising altitude, I headed south, toward the range I’d been frequenting for the last ten years. My favorite spot to land was about a three-hour flight from Two Rivers and about one hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle. It wasn’t on the way to anything, and I’d never once seen another plane or person while there. It was isolated heaven. It was also bear country, and the grizzlies were plentiful. As were the wolves. That was why I had a rifle strapped to the outside of the plane, and I never went anywhere without it. While I lived for photographing animals doing what animals did, I had no intention of becoming their dinner”
― S.C. Stephens, Under the Northern Lights