💬 Quotes

"I had been a killer of wolves, and then a killer of faeries, and now... I was something else entirely."

"To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys. To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered."

"I now walk into the wild."

"Happiness is only real when shared."

"Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth."

"McCandless didn't conform to any of the conventional standards, but he was driven by a powerful, albeit misguided, idealism."

"You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience."

"The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon."

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

"You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear."

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis of a case, and I am in my proper atmosphere."

"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay."

"Every person is a link in a chain that reaches back to the beginning of time."

"In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage—to know who we are and where we have come from."

"Any nigger who tries to learn how to read or write is just fixin' to get himself into trouble."

"The past is a living thing, and it doesn't stay behind us. It is a part of us, shaping who we become."

"He knew that he would never be free until he could hold the memory of his people in his own mind, as if it were a physical place he could return to."

"You must tell your children, and they must tell their children, and so on, down through the ages."