“I didnt say a word. He wouldnt be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.”

“Emotion has its place, but it must not interfere with taking the appropriate action.”

“Dont ever let anyone tell you that you cannot have an opinion.”

“Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent.”

“Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. Its the closest Ive ever felt to dying.”

“I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.”

“Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. Its the closest Ive ever felt to dying.”

“I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.”

“The white-hot singularity at the core of the Machine is ultimately - a fear of death. It's the inevitability of a journey's end and the threat of a question nobody can honestly answer: what does i...”

“Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”