“It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...”
“Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.”
“When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.”
“The temptation to take the next step hung in the air around them...it was the apple: take one bite, and there was no going back.”
“We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.”
“No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.”