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“I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.”
“To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path”
“The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.”
“We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic.”
“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.”
“The ants are bad" The Bear"the ants?"Tahir"Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down." Osman.”
“Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way.”
“The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.”
“A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.”
“Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?”
“The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.”
“A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.”
“Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.”
“Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.”
“There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.”
“As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.”
“The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.”
“As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while; a little growling goes a long way.”
“Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.”
“Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.”
