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21 " intervention is, he thought. That moment when everybody else is on one side and you’re on the other. That’s how you know it’s time to change. Because you’re fresh out of support. "
― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Take Me with You
22 " All I know is, it’s what makes me . . . you know . . . me. You know how when you’re working, or going to school, and you just keep repeating the same days? Go to work, come home, eat. Do the laundry. Go to sleep. And then you notice the days are going by really fast. And they’re all starting to look alike. And then you start to feel like this can’t be it. This can’t be all. This can’t be . . . you know . . . a whole life. There has to be more. That’s what the climbing is to me. It’s the more. That’s the thing that makes me feel like life is enough. Come on. You know what I mean, August. What makes your life feel like enough? "
23 " raison d’être. "
24 " Besides, they looked like brothers. They looked like two examples of the same theme. "
25 " He wished he could communicate what he knew to this frightened boy. But that never did any good anyway. People learned by what they experienced. It mattered little what anyone said to anyone. "
26 " Make your peace with that. Then, if you get to keep talking to them or seeing them, it’ll be a happy surprise. "
27 " I have no idea why time does what it does. Or why people do what we do. It's all a mystery to me. "
28 " August briefly tried that on for size. Wondered if he longed for summer because summer made it so much easier to breathe. "
29 " It was so familiar now, that pain. He almost welcomed it. He'd almost missed it. "
30 " These places. Nature. It makes me feel different. "
31 " How'd we let so much time go by... When we swore we wouldn't? "
32 " Still, everyone of us has something that makes him sad... And no one can save us from all of it. "
33 " We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. "
34 " was something contagious. “I’m not sure what you’re "
35 " Let me go!” Seth shot out. “Tell me what’s going on.”“Not with you holding me prisoner.”“I’m not holding you prisoner. I’m trying to hold you. I’m trying to put my arms around you and give you a hug, but you’re fighting so hard you can’t tell. "
36 " that’s more or less the textbook definition of an alcoholic. Someone who knows it’s time to cut down but can’t. "
37 " So if you run around putting a pillow under people to cushion their fall . . . well, I’m just not sure it’s quite the favor we think it is.” They stood quietly a moment, "
38 " But I’ve seen a lot of people walk a lot of roads. Some not so happy. And it makes them what they are. So if you run around putting a pillow under people to cushion their fall . . . well, I’m just not sure it’s quite the favor we think it is. "
39 " Just on the inside, though,” Seth said. “Like in my chest. Like I breathe air into my chest, and there’s more space in my lungs than before. But not my lungs really. I just feel like there’s more room inside me than there used to be. "
40 " They made you miss one breath, no matter how many times you’d seen them. He didn’t speak. "