"Strong. You can do anything. You can go anywhere. Money, power is an illusion. It’s up here. You can be here. Me and you."
— Christopher McCandless - Into The Wild. (via fuckyeah-into-the-wild)
"Sometimes I got the impression that he resented me when I paid him. He’d say, ‘Now, I have to learn to live with money again.’"
— Wayne Westerberg talking about Chris. (via fuckyeah-into-the-wild)
"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."
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via thiscanvas)
"When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can’t stop him. In our culture we don’t have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk… may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman."
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via thiscanvas)
