The Mountain Between Us (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Ashley Knox: an attractive, successful writer soon to be married
• Dr. Ben Payne: a medical professional and avid climber; separated from his wife
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• Rachel
• Vince
• Napoleon
• Steve
• Michael
• Leatherman

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• “Run with me.”

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• Marry the man who’s going to walk with you through the next fifty or sixty years. Open doors, hold your hand, make your coffee, rub lotion on the cracks of your feet, put you up on a pedestal where you belong. Is he marrying your face and your bottle-blond hair, or will he love you when you look like whoever you’re going to look like in fifty years?”

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• this…living with a broken heart is living half dead, and that doesn’t mean you’re half alive. It means you’re half dead. And…that’s no way to live.”

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• I think when two people really love each other…I mean…” My voice cracked. “…Way down deep…like where their souls sleep and dreams happen, where pain can’t live ’cause there’s nothing for it to feed on…then a wedding is a bleeding together of those two souls. Like two rivers running together. All that water becoming the same water. Mine did that.

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• Then someone comes along who mends a tattered edge, or returns a lost piece. The process is tedious, painful, and there are no shortcuts. Anything that promises to be one is not.

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• Forgiveness is a tough thing. Both in the offering…and the accepting.

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• Maybe each of us was once a complete whole. A clear picture. A single piece. Then something happened to crack and shatter us. Leaving us disconnected, torn and splintered. Some of us lie in a hundred pieces. Some ten thousand. Some are edged with sharp contrast. Some dim shades of gray. Some find they are missing pieces. Some find they have too many. In any case, we are left shaking our heads. It can’t be done.

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• “Once a heart breaks…it doesn’t just grow back. It’s not a lizard’s tail. It’s more like a huge stained glass that shattered into a million pieces, and it’s not going back together. Least not the way it was. You can mush it all into one piece, but that doesn’t make it a window. That makes it a pile of broken colored glass. Shattered hearts don’t mend and they don’t heal. They just don’t work that way.

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• “If the worst is a possibility, then you keep it on the table. Don’t hide from it. Don’t run. It can happen. And if and when it does, you need to have thought about it ahead of time. That way you’re not crushed when your worst thought becomes your reality.”

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• “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but if you want to hurt someone…way down deep, use words.”

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• You believe in things you cannot see and speak a language that only hearts know.

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• Denver
• Salt Lake
• Atlanta
• Jacksonville
• Evanston

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Charles Martin (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.6

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary

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