“One thing I never forgot from my Latin class is that a language that is descended from another language is called a… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“was six,” I said. “The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I think the first thing - if you want to be a writer - the first thing you need to do is… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, and The Optimist’s Daughter, by Eudora Welty.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I can’t tell you what to do. No one can. But as the mother of two children, I can tell you what… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“My daughter is wearing a dress that her grandmother bought for her at a yard sale. It’s so simple it breaks my… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Her death had obliterated that. It had obliterated me. It had cut me short at the very height of my youthful arrogance.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I was her daughter, but more. I was Karen, Cheryl, Leif. Karen Cheryl Leif. KarenCherylLeif. Our names blurred into one in my… — 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
It's funny, it never occurred to me that a movie star would play me. But now that she [Reese Witherspoon] is playing… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Letting go of expectation when it comes to one’s children is close to impossible. The entire premise of our love for them… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“. . . 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
