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1 " In a real situation, like when I was here before, there were things wrong—going wrong. The plane didn’t land and set me on the shore. It crashed. A man was dead. I was hurt. I didn’t know anything. Nothing at all. I was, maybe, close to death and now we’re out here going la-de-da, I’ve got a fish; la-de-da, there are some more berries. "
― Gary Paulsen , The River (Brian's Saga, #2)
2 " Listen to me, he thought. If I were talking out loud, I’d be whining. Derek gets hit and I act like I’m the one getting messed up. It "
3 " sex "
4 " awful, "
5 " The mosquitoes. Tearing at him, clouds of them, the awful, ripping, thick masses of the small monsters trying to bleed him dry. "
6 " The answer to his problem had come to "
7 " How could he? The "
8 " demanding. He turned to see Derek, who was coming up the back of the hill. “See the fish— "
9 " unstable, the "
10 " Fifty-four days,” Brian said. “Not quite two months. Yes—that’s me. "
11 " There was a slashing, new, impossibly loud crack as lightning seemed to hit the shelter itself and Brian saw the top of the pine next to the opening suddenly explode and felt/saw the bolt come roaring down the tree, burning and splitting and splintering the wood and bark, and he saw it hit Derek. "
12 " He realized that he was not always right, was, indeed, often not right, and at the same time he found that others were not always wrong. "
13 " The contour "
14 " He decided to stop every hour for ten minutes. Derek had told him once that that was what the military did on long marches—a ten-minute break every hour "
15 " He had not slept the night before except to doze kneeling next to Derek, and he had worked hard all day on the raft getting it ready, and when the sun went down and the darkness caught him he could not believe how much he wanted to sleep. "