Can I convince the person about whom I'm crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Being so alone and so silent for so long gave me the opportunity to see how our brains actually work. I think… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
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
“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
