If you keep walking back from good luck, he thought, you’ll come to bad luck. - Gary Paulsen

He was not the same. The plane passing changed him, the disappointment cut him down and made him new. He was not the same and would never be again like he had been. That was one of the true things, the new things. And the other one was that he would not die, he would not let death in again.

None of that used to be in Brian and now it was a part of him, a changed part of him, a grown part of him, and the two things, his mind and his body, had come together as well, had made a connection with each other that he didn’t quite understand

I couldn’t change the wind but perhaps I could reduce the effect of the wind on the boat.