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
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
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
We are savages insides. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed. There isn't a person reading this who… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me in those months of planning. Not into a… — 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
“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
