“ It was only when I rounded a bend and glimpsed the white peaks ahead that I doubled my abilities, only when I thought how far i had yet to go that i lost faith that I would get there Cheryl Strayed
“ 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 it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially. Cheryl Strayed
“ Jean-Paul Sartre famously said that hell is other people, which is true enough, but truer still is hell is other people’s boyfriends Cheryl Strayed
“ You can’t take a class if taking a class feels like it’s going to kill you. Faking it never works. If you don’t believe me, read Richard Wright. Read Charlotte Brontë. Read Joy Harjo. Read Toni Morris… Cheryl Strayed
“ So this is the Sierras, eh? he said, looking out over the dark lake. All that time growing up I never made it up here before. It’s the Range of Light, I said, passing the joint back to him. That’s wha… Cheryl Strayed
“ SUGGESTED READING The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich; Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman; As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner; The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout; My First Summer i… Cheryl Strayed
“ Our land: The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening and Double Yoga. Northland Wildflowers and Quilts to Wear. Songs for the Dulcimer and Bread Baking Basics. Using Plants for Healing and I Always Look Up… Cheryl Strayed
“ The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich; Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman; As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner; The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout; My First Summer in the Sierra by Jo… Cheryl Strayed
“ I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise you that you will. I can only say you are worthy of it and that it's never too much to ask for it and that it's not crazy to fear… Cheryl Strayed
“ As close as we'd been when we were together, we were closer in our unraveling, telling each other everything at last, words that seemed to us might never have been spoken between two human beings befo… Cheryl Strayed
“ He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know even if I never saw him again. Cheryl Strayed
“ And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade. Cheryl Strayed
“ Within forty minutes, the voice inside my head was screaming, WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO? I tried to ignore it, to hum as I hiked, though humming proved too difficult to do while also panting and… Cheryl Strayed
“ You go on by doing the best you can. You go on by being generous. You go on by being true. You go on by offering comfort to others who can't go on. You go on by allowing the unbearable days to pass an… Cheryl Strayed
“ I'd read the section in my guidebook about the trail's history the winter before, but it wasn't until now—a couple of miles out of Burney Falls, as I walked in my flimsy sandals in the early evening h… Cheryl Strayed
