How To Be Alone Quotes

“Unzipping my jacket releases all of the trapped odors of my body and of my disgusting hiking shirt, and oh god, it’s bad. I smell so, so bad. If you bought a 10-pound bag of onions, peeled them all and left them outside during the hottest week of the year, surrounded by roadkill, that is how I smell right now.”
― Nicole Antoinette, How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail

“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.”
― Nicole Antoinette, How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail

“Fine,” I say out loud, remembering what I promised myself back at the Grand Canyon. “If you can’t do this, you need to become someone who can.”
― Nicole Antoinette, How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail