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Carrot Quinn QUOTES

Carrot Quinn QUOTES

1 " I’ve spent every waking moment nurturing and maintaining my relationship with this eighteen-inch by 2660-mile ribbon of dirt. "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

2 " I’ve been eating this shit for so long that I’ve transcended the need to actually enjoy my food. No more desires. Eat to live, not live to eat. "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

3 " I remember reading somewhere that there are only two possible prayers: “help me” and “thank you.” “Thank you,” I say to the universe, before I fall asleep. "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

4 " no place is how you expect it to be, and the best thing to do is to not want things in the first place. "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

5 " They say there's a long, narrow ribbon of space-time that stretches from Mexico to Canada. I hear you can live there, for a little while, as long as you keep moving. But be careful, it will break your heart.   "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

6 " In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back, into safety. -Abraham Maslow "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

7 " Time disappears, and it is just me and the mountain, and the wind. I have always been in this windstorm, I think, as I fight my way forward. And I will always be in this windstorm. Up ahead, on a ridge, is a single tree. Someday, I think, I am going to be reincarnated as that tree. As punishment for every choice I've ever made. Or as a reward.   "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

8 " Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. -Anais Nin "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

9 " I think about how no place is how you expect it to be, and the best thing to do is to not want things in the first place. But it’s so hard to do that. So hard. "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

10 " I love you", says the doug-fir. "I love you so much." I can feel the tree there, the tree underneath me the tree all
around me, the tree inside of me. The trees holding each other holding the soil holding me. The trees more patient than
anything, save the ocean. The trees with the long view. I can feel their pity- "Little mammal", they say, "with your two legs.
Running around saying Where Do I Belong. Making value judgments on the wind, the flowers in the springtime, the
shapes of the stars. Little mammal with your trembling heart. I am your home and I love you and I will always be here. "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

11 " How long before all grief is accounted for and I can begin the tedious process of sorting through the tangled barrels, picking off the useful bits, letting the wind carrying the rest away. "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

12 " When I get home I spend a few hours typing customer service emails and working on the listings in my online bookstore, which is the other half, besides the dog-walking, of what I call my “Portland hustle”- the way I make my living in this strange city where hipsters with masters degrees fight each other for barista jobs. "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

13 " Petrichor, "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

14 " The negative things I used to obsess about are just sort of gone. I seem to have worked through all of them while pounding out miles in the desert, worn them down like worry stones until there was nothing left at all, just sand that slipped through my fingers and away. "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

15 " They say that the way you do one thing is the way you do everything, "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

16 " You’d think, too, that at this point in the trail I’d have this figured out. And maybe I have. Maybe I know exactly how much food I should bring, and I chose not to bring it. "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

17 " I am, at this point, what Instigate calls “vista'd out-” I barely see the views. In fact, I have grown very, very weary of them. Ridgelines, bah! The convoluted surface of the earth! Light and shadow! I am over all of it. "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

18 " A while later I stop in a stand of big doug-firs and lean my body against one of them. The bars of yellow sun are scattered just so and I push my face into the deep rutted bark of the tree smelling the spider webs there, the dust, the hardened pitch. Big doug-fir, I think. What do I need to know right now. I love you, says the doug-fir. I love you so much. I can feel the tree there, the tree underneath me the tree all around me, the tree inside of me. The trees holding each other holding the soil holding me. The trees more patient than anything, save the ocean. The trees with the long view. I can feel their pity- Little mammal, they say, with your two legs. Running around saying Where Do I Belong. Making value judgments on the wind, the flowers in the springtime, the shapes of the stars. Little mammal with your trembling heart. I am your home and I love you and I will always be here. "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

19 " When I climb into my tent I feel happy and light. I’ve gone twenty-nine miles today, my longest day ever. Ever ever. "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

20 " It’s just me up here on the mountaintop, between the earth and sky. It’s just me, the sound of my breath as I push myself up to the ridge; it’s just me, beneath the Milky Way. The stars are singing to me, the air that rises from the valleys; all of this is for me. There is a peace inside of me, a feeling of emptiness. Above me the galaxy is spinning, or I’m spinning, or we’re all spinning. There is no time, I think. There has never been any time. There is only this. "

― Carrot Quinn , Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail