Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

"Happiness [is] only real when shared"

"What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?"

"I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess."

"According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all."

"Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past."

"Happiness [is] only real when shared"

"Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one."

"Happiness [is] only real when shared"

"I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth."

"It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong."

"When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you."

"I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once."