Quotes/pink worksheet

1. "It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances"
2. "nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future"
3. "Leave him alone! He's a grown man!"
4. "He figured all of that on his own, and I felt sure he'd figure out Alaska, too" (46).
5. "Available to anyone till I know more about his death for he was not just the common wayfarer" (48).
6. "'Look Mr. Franz,' he declared, 'you don't need to worry about me...I'm living like this by choice'" (51)
7."He is wearing jeans and an immaculate white t-shirt, a decorative tooled-leather belt of his own creation, white socks, scuffed loafers"
8. "Nobody, however, was affected more powerfully by his or her brief contact with the boy than Ronald Franz, who was eighty years old when their paths intersected in January 1992" (48).
9. "All nature is your congratulations, and you have... momentarily to bless yourself"
10. "My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp..." (57)
11. Relieved that he had again evaded the impeding threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it" (55).
12. "Westerberg's latter conjecture, as it turned out, was a fairly astute analysis of the relationship between Chris and Walt McCandless...Given Walt's need to exert control and Chris's extravagantly independent nature, polarization was inevitable..."