49814. “The canopy of trees overhead is so thick that only bits and pieces of blue sky can be seen overhead. Narrow rays of sunshine slice their way between the tree branches; slanted silver swords lighting my way.” ― Vanessa G. Foster, More Than Everything September 10, 2022
49813. “Love is not a word or an idea or even a place to go to or a thing to strive for. It is not something to grasp and smother and mold and change. It cannot be orchestrated, played, controlled or manipulated. You can not cup it tenderly in your open hand or wish it into being through fervent prayer.” ― Vanessa G. Foster, More Than Everything September 10, 2022
49812. Let’s run away.” “To where?” “Alaska.” “What’s in Alaska?” “No clue,” I whispered. “Find out with me.” ― Cecily White, Conspiracy Boy September 10, 2022
49811. “I enjoy working for my heat. I don’t just press a button or twist a thermostat dial. I use the big crosscut saw and the axe, and while I’m getting my heat supply I’m working up an appetite that makes simple food just as appealing as anything a French chef could create.” ― Richard Proenneke, One Man’s Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey September 10, 2022
49810. “There’s been a lot to get used to here.” Esther laughed. “Isn’t that the truth. I don’t know if you ever get used to it really. It just gets in your blood so that you can’t stand to be anywhere else.” ― Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child September 10, 2022
49809. “She lifted me back into the seat with a wicked grin, and breathed, ‘Just don’t stop talking. Whatever you do, just don’t stop talking,’ and swallowed my manhood. I scrambled desperately through the darkened corners of my memory until I couldn’t take it anymore. I grabbed her by the hair and said, ‘Now bend over, and I’ll do to you what the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries wants to keep the Federal government from doing to the state of Alaska.” ― Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, Indecision Now! A Libertarian Rage September 10, 2022
49808. “There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back—and I will.” ― Robert W. Service, The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses September 10, 2022
49807. “Rich and poor, strong and weak gave their help in this difficult fight. All this without hate, notoriety, or malice. Finally, Alaska pulled herself out of her deep unnecessary sleep and the laws began to change. Why? Because people were awakened to their obligation to their fellow men. A few times some people tried to discriminate against us but that is almost impossible to do when the object of such action feels no inferiority.” ― Annie Boochever, Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich September 10, 2022
49806. “Whoa!”Stella shouted. Billy ran ahead, released his tether. “Hike!” “Let’sGo!” Cautiously, they continued still deeper into the darkness. The canopy dripped snow-melt onto them. Stella shivered. The sleds were silhouettes, the dogs liquid shadows. “Listen, what was that?” ― Suzy Davies, The Girl in The Red Cape September 10, 2022
49805. “her fury at being trapped, confined in so much huge emptiness” ― Nick Lake, Nowhere on Earth September 10, 2022
49804. “The tall cityscape that was Anchorage encroached on the wide skies. It was like a giant walking and uninhabited, unclaimed land.” ― Suzy Davies, The Girl in The Red Cape September 10, 2022
49803. “Still, I must admit, that I suspect these coincidences, these bending branches of charity are more complicated and somehow related to this place, Denali. I didn’t just pursue her. She called to me, and I answered the call, as natural and with such strong urgency as the migrating birds that flock here, seeking summer resting grounds and absolution.” ― Danielle Rohr, Denali Skies September 10, 2022
49802. “We have three weeks left; before the season will end, and this will end, and everyone will go, and it will never be again, at least not with us, and the way we are together. So, we have these nights, and we hold them so tightly, so dearly in our hearts.” ― Danielle Rohr, Denali Skies September 10, 2022
49801. “We have three weeks left, before the season will end, and this will end, and everyone will go, and it will never be again, at least not with us, and the way we are together. So, we have these nights, and we hold them so tightly, so dearly in our hearts.” ― Danielle Rohr, Denali Skies September 10, 2022
49800. “As she stares into the cool prisms of blues and whites, and the clear parts which fracture the light, she notices something deeper. It is a light from within the ice. It’s beautiful; so she stays.” ― Danielle Rohr, Denali Skies September 10, 2022
49799. “Tectonic power and glacial force push and pull the geology, spreading it to it’s absolute limit, yet layered and rich with hues of darkness, immortality, and mysteries not meant for men.” ― Danielle Rohr, Denali Skies September 10, 2022
49798. “Remember, good things come to those who wait.” ― Debbie Macomber, Alaskan Holiday September 10, 2022
49797. “Trouble always feels personal. But it doesn’t mean that God doesn’t care about you. That He’s out to get you. In fact, the opposite is true. God deliberately put Himself in the way of the ultimate tragedy to save you. That’s what grace is…and frankly, He uses trouble to show you Himself.” ― Susan May Warren, Light My Fire September 10, 2022
49796. “I cast the wilderness itself as a character in the book. It is my belief that the interplay of light and dark elements, good and evil, dreams and waking hours, reality and fantasy is why fairytales enchant and delight readers. Michele Bourke’s illustrations depict characters and scenes in a magical way.” ― Suzy Davies September 10, 2022
49795. “Each evening the night swallowed the sun and gave the raven the sun’s energy. He stored this power in his wings, tinged with the blue of Alaskan skies.” ― Suzy Davies, The Girl in The Red Cape September 10, 2022
49794. “I’m sorry. I was just running them. Running the dogs.” I swallowed more soup and looked at the sky. The cold air was so clear the stars seemed to be falling to the ground. Like you could walk right. . . over . . . there and pick them up just lying on the snow. “I couldn’t come back.” ― Gary Paulsen, Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod September 10, 2022
49793. “There is no middle ground, no safe place; not here, in the Great Alone.” ― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone September 10, 2022
49792. “She had no idea what she was asking. If he tried to help her, he knew what would happen. He’d have a mission again. A reason to reconnect with the world. And connections meant pain.” ― Elizabeth Heiter, K-9 Defense September 10, 2022
49791. “Up here you can make one mistake. The second one will kill you.” ― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone September 10, 2022
49790. “This place, the land is more ancient and pure; it’s like a concentrated tonic for the soul. If you take too much it can infect you, and if you don’t take enough you have missed it completely and your efforts were in vein.” ― Danielle Rohr, Denali Skies September 10, 2022
49789. “With the long hours of daylight in the Alaska summers, the gardens served up a cornucopia of amazing and extra-large produce.” ― Debbie Macomber, Alaskan Holiday September 10, 2022
49788. “The minute I set eyes on your mother, I felt this thing happen in my gut, like the flu bug hit me worse than any sickness I’ve ever had, worse than the bubonic plague.” His love analogy could use a little work…” ― Debbie Macomber, Alaskan Holiday September 10, 2022
49787. “Two kinds of flocks come up to Alaska, Cora. People running to something and people running away from something. The second kind-you want to keep your eye out for them” ― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone September 10, 2022
49785. “If you have ever wanted to visit somewhere completely wild – away from services, roads, people, and all signs of humanity – head to Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, one of Earth’s last true wilderness places.” ― Stefanie Payne, A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip September 10, 2022
49784. “Alaska herself can be Sleeping Beauty one minute and a bitch with a sawed-off shotgun the next.” ― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone September 10, 2022
49783. “We are not here to exist; we are here to live, to face death and stare it down. We are here to trust in God and to embrace this world in all its quiet and violent beauty, to break down the walls of our own prejudices and believe in something greater than ourselves. We are here to paddle into our worst fears and come out the other side to discover glaciers, to meet them face-to-face, and to celebrate a sense of wonder and God’s plan that we find only in Nature.” ― Kim Heacox, John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America September 10, 2022
49782. “Grief is like an ocean. It comes in waves – some waves are bigger than others and you cannot prepare for it.” ― Summer Lane, Running with Wolves September 10, 2022