“I would want things to be different than they were. The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
So on one hand, because the wilderness was familiar to me, it really helped me be brave. But it still was scary… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I would suffer. I would suffer. I would want things to be different than they were. The wanting was a wilderness and… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I didn't know how living outdoors and sleeping on the ground in a tent each night and walking alone through the wilderness… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Perhaps being amidst the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant that I too could be undesecrated, regardless of what I'd lost or… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Very nice," said Rick after a while. "Very nice," he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. "What is?" I asked, turning… — 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
