“The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true objectthe joy of livingis not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up. There are valleys, cliffs, str...”

“Her only weapons were her tears.”

“The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.”

“If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.”

“A day in a mans life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.”

“Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.”

“And, as always, I thank my family who are an amazing network of support.”

“Last of all, this book owes perhaps its biggest debt to the ultimate models for Kira and Heron and every other awesome girl in the Partials series: my two daughters. May you always have heroines to...”

“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.It is really that simple.And that hard.”

“He thought hed lived through everything. Only now did he realise hed merely existed.”

“Its time for a spring cleaning of your thoughts, its time to stop to just existing its time to start living.”

“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.”

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

“The living sinners on deadly ground.”