The River At Night Quotes
"Just because some place or something or someone doesn’t have a website doesn’t mean they don’t exist."
"It’s a big old world out there. One of the reasons this place is so awesome is because no one knows about it yet."
"You can’t have a piece of the wild and not go out in the wild."
"Being out there in the wilderness, you have no idea what’ll happen, really."
"I’m sick of everything, you know? I’m sick of dragging my ass around the world to fucking sneaker expos, hanging around with hip-hop 'stars' and hawking the latest line of bullshit miracle insoles guaranteed to make you run faster or lose weight, some lie like that."
"It was beautiful and frightening to see how nature didn’t give two shits about houses, buildings, and bridges, that it would shrug us off the first chance it got."
"Nature was a language I simply didn’t speak."
"How often do we get to see each other? Never enough."
"Open a watch. Take apart a car. There is always a man behind the curtain, pulling the levers; there are no mysteries left."
"Once one mystery is solved, isn’t there always another lying just beneath?"
"We did it to your generation. We poisoned the earth and the air and the water for you to inherit."
"You have to be ready to be upside down and in that water."
"Just because you can’t see animals doesn’t mean they aren’t out there, watching. Smelling you."
"I don’t care what you see, hear, feel, or whatever happens, you do what I say, when I say it, exactly how I say it."
"Photoshop emergency at the magazine? Sorry, can’t possibly get to it. I’m three hundred miles away in the wilderness of northern Maine."
"It paid to look a little deeper into people like him."
"I’ll never know why I was assigned this position, but it was me who supported Rory’s head as we dragged his body up the bank from the beach."
"The forest looked monstrously heavy in the lowering light, seeming to sprout more green before my eyes."
"A profound thirst followed. Head down, I hurried back to the shore."
"You can carry a lot in a raft if you’re smart about it."
"Rest in peace, Rory Ekhart. Who knows what kind of man you would have grown into."
"I saw it all too late: Sandra beginning to teeter."
"Dean, quit bothering those women and get in here and go to sleep."
"We’ll mark it with rocks or something, leave something tied to a tree by the river so we can find this place again."
"We are alive. Probably fucked big-time, but unlike Rory, still walking around, still breathing."
"We need to find a way to live through the night."
"The forest that lined the river was impenetrable, so we had to make our way along the bank."
"I remember the time we all went parasailing off the Keys in Florida because you said it would be a great thing to do."
"We burst out of the woods, freed from a prison of green."
"A deep-rooted sob erupted from him, and he lifted my hands from his cheeks, encased them with his own, and held them against his closed eyes."
"We’re not going to panic. That’s not going to get us anywhere."
"Dean, can you take us to a town? Do you know the way, besides the river, I mean?"
"In the end we did for Sandra what we had for Rory: we covered her with stones, branches, anything we could find to protect her body."
"We leave now," Pia said. "We have an hour of sunlight."
"I’m staying here," Rachel said. She sat cross-legged near the pile of stones that covered Sandra, staring at nothing. "I’m done."
"Don’t be ridiculous." Pia bent over and grabbed her under the shoulders. "Come on, Rachel, get up."
"I can’t fucking believe you did that, Rachel," Pia hissed.
"Look, I don’t care about your goddamned family or whoever they are. This is my family, my friends here. The only family I have left, and we are down one."
"We don’t care what you promised him," Rachel said.
"You have to get off the raft," Pia said darkly.
"You are her son. She won’t hurt you." But I had no idea what this woods creature would do to her son. Look at what she had already done to him.
"Happy," he signed, though his eyes stayed sad, and I could see that in his mind he was already racing through the forest.
"You don’t think she’ll be ripping mad if she finds him still with us?" she hissed, her face inches from mine.
"Jesus Christ, Pia, snap out of it," Rachel said.
"You inspired her," I shouted, the wind sucking at my words. "She told me she was going to leave Jeff. You inspired her to be brave."