"How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement -- no matter how temporary."

"There lay our challenge - to find how far we could venture on the icy snow before breaking through. We had to step ever so gingerly like a cat. Or like Jesus walking on the water. Phil thought it was a competition BETWEEN us. In that sense i most often won... but i knew i wasn't competiting against him, but against myself -- against my own clumsy humanity that had lost synchronization with the earth. In that sense i always lost."

these were my two favourite quotes from Blankets by Craig Thompson. thanks emma. it was a good read.