Ledge Quotes

“She guesses that for all their differences, he might just be the only other creature in their world who was born and made as she was. Perhaps souls like theirs can only wander so far before they collide.”
― Stacey McEwan, Ledge

“...but I will not sift through her choices and dispose of the ones that make me afraid. They are not mine.”
― Stacey McEwan, Ledge

“She has learned the might of silence. It is the prelude to fear. It is the absence of company. It is the moment before the monster takes you into his claws. She abhors it.”
― Stacey McEwan, Ledge

“It is my aim in life to leave an impression and I don’t much care for ensuring it be a good one.”
― Stacey McEwan, Ledge

“Not a desirable trait, is it? For a woman to be arrogant? On a man, it charms, but in women, it corners us. A self-assured woman is either a harlot or embittered.”
― Stacey McEwan, Ledge

“means, beware the female whose desire to hurt burns hotter than her desire to heal.”
― Stacey McEwan, Ledge

“Did it scare you, Ryon? Tell me, what will you do if I kiss you again?” He grabs her wrist and pulls her down the path. “I will bury myself inside you, Dawsyn. And yes, it scares me.”
― Stacey McEwan, Ledge

“I’m tired.” “Of what?” “Of being alone,” she says. “Of… being.” He knows she does not speak of loneliness in its simplest form. She speaks of being alone in her struggle, in misfortune she cannot share with another.”
― Stacey McEwan, Ledge

“Tears in the corners of my eyes—of pure emotion—joy—happiness … I feel totally unburdened. The load has been lifted off my back, off my mind. I have to do nothing more to prove myself. This is not for others but for me—and to me. Observation Mountain is a beautiful place. A beautiful rare mood. A few precious moments of ecstasy somehow not meant for—or translate-able into—words. Language fails where the tears begin.”
― Jim Davidson, The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier

“I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.… It is enough that I am surrounded by beauty.” Ruess scaled remote canyons,”
― Jim Davidson, The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier

“Allow his spirit to be peaceful, but allow it to roam free. Let him race up and down the slopes with the wind, let him trickle slowly through the canyons, let him spread completely and gracefully across the land with the setting sun. [He] deserved many things in this life he did not get, but he most assuredly deserves these things.”
― Jim Davidson, The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier