Quotes from book
Hatchet

Name: Hatchet
Author: Gary Paulsen

Hatchet is a 1986 Newbery Honor-winning young-adult wilderness survival novel written by American writer Gary Paulsen. It is the first novel of five in the Hatchet series.

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

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“And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.”

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“He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping.”

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“He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now… He was alone and there was nothing for him.”

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“When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.”

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“Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.”

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“That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.”

Gary Paulsen book Hatchet

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