All Cheryl Strayed Quotes
- I've learned so much as both a writer and a human. Both
- My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home. Abandoned
- One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in… Any
- Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work. Error
- 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. You turn to… Advice
- My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted… Accepted
- My mom said there's a sunrise and a sunset every day and you can choose to be there or not. You can put yourself in… Beauty
- What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was? Funny
- I made it the mantra of those days; when I paused before yet another series of switchbacks or skidded down knee-jarring slopes, when patches of… Absolutely
- The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back. Ever Kidding
- It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point… Accumulation
- Wanting to leave is enough. Funny
- Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it turned out that… Always Said
- The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into… Battle
- That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding. Astounding
- Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could… Actual
- We love and care for oodles of people, but only a few of them, if they died, would make us believe we could not continue… Believe
- 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 tale. All
- She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she'd made her… All
- It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds. All
- Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That perhaps being amidst… All
- How wild it was, to let it be. Funny
- Work hard. Do good. Be incredible! Good
- Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore. All
- In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole. Asshole