29 Quotes by Jonathan Franklin

Everything will work out... don't give up hope, remain calm.

How many of us appreciate the joys of a simple tortilla?

Everything will work out... don’t give up hope, remain calm.

They didn’t have enough time to haul in the entire line – instead he would cut it off. He knew it was thousands of dollars’ worth of line and hooks that would float away, with hundreds of dollars’ worth of catch still hooked, but the storm was turning ugly. Alvarenga.

Although Alvarenga was unaware, he carried the optimum body type and precise age for an extreme survival situation. He was exceptionally strong but not too tall or muscled to require massive caloric intake, and at thirty-four years old near the perfect vortex of maximum strength and maximum experience.

It was not the magical moment of bonding that either had imagined, but at least it was no longer a fantasy.

Though they shared the same boat, the two men were veering off on different trajectories.

Alvarenga believed he didn’t need a doctor to diagnose what was wrong. He was suffering from a yearlong tortilla drought.

Anyone who reads '33 Men' will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.