"Blood is thicker than water, my mother had……" — Cheryl Strayed
"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 it didn’t matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms."
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137 Quotes by Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed has 137 quotes on this site.
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Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing…
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The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long…
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You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation…
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I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.
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I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all,…
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It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so…
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The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.
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Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.
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Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a…
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What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?…
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A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about…
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The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.
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