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Me Quotes by Cheryl Strayed
- It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How…
- Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass thing I’ve done…
- What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I…
- I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything…
- I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me in those months of planning. Not into a different person, but…
- Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.
- I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.
- I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she…
- I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a…
- When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly…
- And if you're gonna be a writer, you just truly have to be a writer. You have to throw yourself into it and deal with…
- But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in bewildered detail, but…
- Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the…
- Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother—even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me.…
- I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances…
- He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.
- …the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I…
- It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of…
- He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale