I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my new life was the gift I got at… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
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
What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here?… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did… — 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
If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't… — 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
What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
And if you're gonna be a writer, you just truly have to be a writer. You have to throw yourself into it… — 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
![“It's funny, it never occurred to me that a movie star would play me. But now that she [Reese Witherspoon] is playing me, it's like, of course, it couldn't be anyone else! I don't know if you've seen pictures of Reese and me and Reese and my daughter Bobbi, who's named after my mother, and also…” quote by Cheryl Strayed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a4/cheryl-strayed-605_children_it-s-funny-it-never-occurred-to-me-that_2597254.jpg)
