“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
“ou let time pass. That’s the cure. You survive the days. You float like a rabid ghost through the weeks. You cry… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I watched it bounce - it was lightning fast and in slow motion all at once - and then I watched it… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I love music and listen to music all the time, but I didn't realize how much my body needed music. I needed… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“If we rise, they will rise with us every time, no matter how many times we’ve fallen before. I hope you will… — 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
“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“If I could go back in time I'd make the same choice in a snap. And yet, there remains my sister life.… — 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
Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Every time I set foot on that trail, I feel grateful for the PCTA for doing the work it does to protect… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“It’s a useful way to see what’s there. A lot of times, it isn’t much.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“It seemed like a long time and also it seemed like my trip had just begun, like I was only now digging… — 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
“weren’t things that blazed dully past. They were long, intimate straggles of weeds and clumps of dirt, blades of grass and flowers… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Aside from marrying my husband and having my children, hiking the PCT was the best thing I ever did. The hike very… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
A few times a year I'll remember that I love old literature, too. Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is one of my 10… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
It's hard to go. It's scary and lonely...and half the time you'll be wondering why the hell you're in Cincinnati or Austin… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Anything else? To be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred… — 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
I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“And it was true. I always would have guessed it, even all the time that I feared it would never happen. Being… — 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
