Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience — waiting and thinking and doing things right. So much of this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

One of my favorite passages from Hatchet, a book that isn’t spoken about enough. Cliff hangers abound. Each short chapter is a contained short story.

Wonderful.

Also filled with small life lessons, quips, sayings, reminders like this surface.

Gary Paulsen, Hatchet, illus. Drew Willis, 20th anniv. ed. (New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007), 146.