My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I didn't get to grow up and pull away from her and bitch about her with my friends and confront her about… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“It will never be okay,” a friend who lost her mom in her teens said to me a couple years ago. “It… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“One ends a romantic relationship while remaining a compassionate friend by being kind above all else. By explaining one’s decision to leave… — 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
