My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. — 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
“We aren't poor," my mother said, again and again. "Because we're rich in love.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
…the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen… — 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 had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it… — 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
“All this is probably for nothing,' she [her mother] said once we'd hatched the plan. 'Most likely I'll flunk out anyway.' To… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“By the time I rose and started walking again, I didn’t begrudge my mother a thing. The truth was, in spite of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I lay down in the mother ash dirt among the crocuses and told her it was okay. That I'd surrendered. That since… — 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
“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
When someone you love truly dies, you have to find them over and over again in the world, and I think you… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“It hadn't occurred to me that my mother would die. Until she was dying, the thought had never entered my mind. She… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
My mom died when I was 22. My stepfather, who I loved like a father, pretty quickly got involved with another woman.… — 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
“When you say you experience my writing as sacred, what you are touching is the divine place within me that is my… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“But now that she was dying, I knew everything. My mother was in me already. Not just the parts of her that… — 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
“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
![“All this is probably for nothing,' she [her mother] said once we'd hatched the plan. 'Most likely I'll flunk out anyway.' To prepare, she shadowed me during the last months of my senior year of high school, doing all the homework that I was assigned, honing her skills. She replicated my…” quote by Cheryl Strayed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/94c/cheryl-strayed-605_cheryl-strayed_all-this-is-probably-for-nothing-she-her_1805848.jpg)
