Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“How fabulous down was for those first minutes! Down, down, down I'd go until down too became impossible and punishing and so… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I will never go home, I thought with a finality that made me catch my breath, and then I walked on, my… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Aside from marrying my husband and having my children, hiking the PCT was the best thing I ever did. The hike very… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“As I clung to the chaparral that day, attempting to patch up my bleeding finger, terrified by every sound that the bull… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“She understands that attention is the first and final act of love, and that the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
“The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in life. For some of you, those things have already happened. Whatever happens to you… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they can get… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
“Don’t listen to those people who suggest you should be “over” your daughter’s death by now. The people who squawk the loudest about such… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
“. . . there was the actual doing it, quickly followed by the grim realization of what it meant to do it, followed by… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
“I never believed the boys were angry. I believed they were hurt and anger was the safest manifestation of their sorrow. It was the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
“It’s wrong that this is required of you. It’s wrong that your son died. It will always be wrong.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
“Your ultimatum is simple. It’s fair. And it’s stating your own intentions, not what you hope theirs will be.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
“We aren't poor," my mother said, again and again. "Because we're rich in love.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
