The Hike Quotes

“You don't know how much you love someone until you realise you're never going to see them again. That you must live in a world where they no longer are.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“Loneliness wasn’t the absence of people, she realized. It was the absence of people who understood you.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“There is no meant to when it comes to feelings. You feel what you feel.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“That's what life gets reduced to in those final moments - the person you choose to hold hands with.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“Vertigo wasn’t a fear of heights. It was a scrambling of messages to the brain when the ground wasn’t level so it couldn’t process all the sensory information”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“To me, a friend is someone who is there when it counts: when a parent dies; when you’re going through a divorce; when life isn’t shiny and bright. Not for the holidays and the high days, or when you need a place to crash to try on a family Christmas for size.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“All morning he’s had a strange plunging, lurching sensation in his gut – like he’s at the top of a rollercoaster and is tensing, ready for the drop.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“Belongings made her feel secure. She was one of those people who always carried a huge handbag without ever quite knowing what was in it.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“You don’t know how much you love someone until you realise you’re never going to see them again. That you must live in a world where they no longer are.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“If the mountains had taught Liz anything, it was that the journey was never about reaching the peak. You climbed – and kept climbing – to push through the struggle and experience the glimpses of beauty along the way. For how the climb made you feel.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“Wasn’t it that joy and struggle were so deeply enmeshed that you couldn’t experience one without the other?”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“You start choosing the parts of someone that you’d change or alter, and you realize those very parts are what also makes you love them.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“They could have been twelve, or eighteen, or twenty-five. That was the magic of old friends: the years were stripped away.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“Loneliness wasn’t the absence of people, she realised. It was the absence of people who understood you.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“She would miss that sweet moment of slipping into a dark room to swap a tissue-wrapped tooth for a shiny pound coin.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“A few months earlier, thanks to a broken fan belt that the garage took an age to repair, Liz had been forced to walk to the clinic. As she’d walked, something magical had seemed to happen; with each step,”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“Touring was impossible to explain. It was this crazy, messed-up, distorted reality. The drugs and alcohol. The haze of jet lag. The brutal insomnia. The adrenaline that never left her body or let her sleep. The screaming fans. The press following her every move. The cameras shoved in her face. It was arriving at a different arena night after night, knowing you had nothing left to give. Looking through the wings at a sea of faces, fans screaming your name, expecting Joni Gold. Only it’s not you. It’s someone else pasting on a smile, stepping out into those dazzling lights, arms thrown wide—Hello, Brooklyn! Hello, Sydney! Hello, Tokyo!—when all you want is to curl up tight, to stay in the dark, because that’s where you belong. But you can’t. You must pump out this energy, fill a whole stadium with it, and it’s got to come from somewhere. But you don’t have any left. You’re a shell. An empty, broken shell! So you get it on loan any way you can—caffeine, cocaine, antidepressants, champagne, vodka, nicotine, ketamine—whatever you can get.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike

“You don’t know how much you love someone until you realise you’re never going to see them again. That you must live in a world where they no longer are. The finality of it, the utter endlessness of grief – it was overwhelming. She couldn’t fix it. Or change it. Or bargain with it. Or control it. It just happened and she was powerless. Grief was so brutal that she didn’t know if she’d survive. Some”
― Lucy Clarke, The Hike