💬 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."

"I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart."

"We all know it. We’re modelled on trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps, convicts, the lot. That’s what we come from. We all know it, so why don’t we say it?"

"What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been much different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time."

"Poor creatures. I wish I could help you. But you're machines. It's how it is. It's how things are."

"You’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people, and this is very wrong, you’ve been let run along so you’d get the idea, but you’ve never really understood."

"I suppose it's just the way it is. We're all just following the path that's been laid out for us, and there's not much point in trying to step off it."