“The fact is, the heart and mind aren't always friendly. And in my case, they're barely speaking.”

“Crazy people always think they're perfectly sane. It's what makes them so crazy; their entire delusion lies within the fact that they believe they aren't deluded.”

“Numbers are everywhere," said Denis. "They're always the same, aren't they?""Yes.""But Alice is only here.""Yes.""So you've already made up your mind.”

“Sometimes friends do go from us-it will happen more and more as you grow up, Chugg. But if you really love your friends, they're never really gone. Somewhere they're watching over you and they're always there inside your heart.-Martin”

“Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”

“Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition”