“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

“She put one hand on mine. When someone is in your heart, theyre never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

“Kids chase the love that eludes them.”

“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.”

“How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . Is thi...”

“During my three seasons at Mount Rainier I learned a lot about mountain climbing and rescues, about politics and camaraderie in the mountains, and about what being a woman climber means. Now I know...”

“To get over a mountain, you have to climb it.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?”

“Mountain is mountain.”

“That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the zenith above me and the drop of distance below, I listened to the mountain silence until I could h...”