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When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, "Samurai Song" Never never never give up. WINSTON CHURCHILL — Cheryl Strayed

Who would I be if I didn't? Who would I be if I did? — Cheryl Strayed

But thinking about it didn't do a thing. Thinking about it was a long dive into a bucket of shit that didn't have a bottom. — Cheryl Strayed

Within the chaos of our shame and disappointment and rage there is meaning, and within that meaning is the possibility of rescue. — Cheryl Strayed

Our minds are small, but our hearts are big. — Cheryl Strayed

I saw no one, but, strange as it was, I missed no one. I — Cheryl Strayed

But no one laughed. No one would. The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. — Cheryl Strayed

Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action. — Jim Rogers

You can learn along the way. — Cheryl Strayed

Our parents are the primal source. We make our own lives, but our origin stories are theirs. They go back with us to the beginning of time. — Cheryl Strayed

This is how you get unstuck. You reach. — Cheryl Strayed

When you're speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice. — Cheryl Strayed

Then Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell. — J.R.R. Tolkien

They realized that, in fact, the lie wasn't safe. That it threatened their existence more profoundly than the truth did. — Cheryl Strayed

I felt fierce and humble and gathered up inside, like I was safe in this world — Cheryl Strayed

I chose Van Gogh. — Cheryl Strayed

Nobody is going to give you a thing. You have to give it to yourself. — Cheryl Strayed

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story. — Cheryl Strayed

She was a real human being laying herself bare, fearlessly, that we might come to understand the nature of our own predicaments. — Cheryl Strayed

You've made it so long without your sweet boy and now you can't take it anymore. But you can. You must. — Cheryl Strayed

We should surround ourselves with people who feel like abundance. — Cheryl Strayed

But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to. — Alyson Noel

What is hiking but walking, after all ? — Cheryl Strayed

There's always a sunrise and always a sunset and it's up to you to choose to be there for it,' said my mother. 'Put yourself in the way of beauty. — Cheryl Strayed

I didn't want to hurt for him anymore, to wonder whether in leaving him I'd made a mistake, to torment myself with all the ways I'd wronged him. — Cheryl Strayed

I grew up and left home for college in the Twin Cities at a school called St. Thomas, — Cheryl Strayed

Work hard. Do good. Be incredible! — Cheryl Strayed

Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here. — Cheryl Strayed

Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could. — Cheryl Strayed

We don't reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved. — Cheryl Strayed

What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? — Cheryl Strayed

Until, that is, a tree stopped me in my path. — Cheryl Strayed

Run toward the darkness, sweet peas, and shine. — Cheryl Strayed

An REI worker had encouraged me to buy a box of Spenco 2nd Skin - gel patches meant to treat burns that also happened to be great for blisters. — Cheryl Strayed

Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid. — Cheryl Strayed

There was only the stillness and silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing began. — Cheryl Strayed

I was trying to find a new home in the world. — Cheryl Strayed

Ask yourself: What is the best I can do? And then do that. — Cheryl Strayed

There are stories you'll learn if you're strong enough to travel there. One of them might cure you. — Cheryl Strayed

Will you do it later or will you do it now? — Cheryl Strayed

A caldera, it's called - a sort of mountain in reverse. A mountain that's had its very heart removed. — Cheryl Strayed

Write so blazingly good that you can't be framed ... Write like a motherfucker. — Cheryl Strayed

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore. — Cheryl Strayed

You can't squeeze blood from a turnip. — Cheryl Strayed

The thing that would make me believe that hiking the Pacific Crest Trail was my way back to the person I used to be. — Cheryl Strayed

I'd entered the city the way one enters any grand love affair: with no exit plan. — Cheryl Strayed

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. — Cheryl Strayed

The whole deal about loving truly and for real and with all you've got has everything to do with letting those we love see what made us. — Cheryl Strayed

The fuck is your life. Answer it. — Cheryl Strayed

Lady pranced and scraped her front hooves on the ice and then lowered her head and looked at us. I inhaled sharply and Leif fired the gun. — Cheryl Strayed

IMAGINE WHIRLED PEAS — Cheryl Strayed

my physical suffering some of my emotional suffering would fade away. — Cheryl Strayed

waiting for a friend to get off — Cheryl Strayed

I'd first heard of it only seven months before, when I was living in Minneapolis, — Cheryl Strayed

Fear of being alone is not a good reason to stay — Cheryl Strayed

I was working too hard to be afraid. — Cheryl Strayed

So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. — Cheryl Strayed

It was April in Minneapolis and snowing, the flakes coming down in thick swirls enchanting the city — Cheryl Strayed

Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee. — John Donne

all right is almost always where we eventually land, even if we fuck up entirely along the way. — Cheryl Strayed

Be the captain. You are the captain. Take the ball and run. — Cheryl Strayed

A beloved daughter who now spent holidays alone. — Cheryl Strayed

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people ... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. — L.M. Montgomery

Every time I've strayed from the beaten path I've never regretted it. — Tori Murden

What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What — Cheryl Strayed

I mean: be your best, most gigantic self. — Cheryl Strayed

There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise. — Cheryl Strayed

I hated him and I loved him. With him I felt trapped, branded, held, and beloved. Like a daughter. — Cheryl Strayed

But the thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going. — Cheryl Strayed

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. — Cheryl Strayed

Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding — Cheryl Strayed

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed. — Ann Hood

I didn't look like a woman who might need twelve condoms. — Cheryl Strayed

Every time I set foot on that trail, I feel grateful for the PCTA for doing the work it does to protect and preserve it — Cheryl Strayed

Bagby Hot Springs. — Cheryl Strayed

Humans are beautifully imperfect and complex. We're horny, ass-saving, ego-driven drug fiends, among other, more noble things. — Cheryl Strayed

You don't need a reason to leave. — Cheryl Strayed

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals. — Sylvester Stallone

I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently. — Andy Dick

How strange and glorious it was to be anchored to nothing, to be free, in some particular way, for the first time in my life. — Cheryl Strayed

I put her burnt bones into my mouth and swallowed them whole. — Cheryl Strayed

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. — Cheryl Strayed

The good things aren't a movie. There isn't enough to make a reel. The good things are a poem, barely longer than a haiku. There — Cheryl Strayed

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul. — Rebecca West

I didn't know where I was going until I got there. It — Cheryl Strayed

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it. — Cheryl Strayed

Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid. — Cheryl Strayed

When I have something to say that's particularly hard to say, I often write it down first. — Cheryl Strayed

it with their fingers out of my hands, — Cheryl Strayed

Accept that someday what pains you now will surely pain you less. — Cheryl Strayed

This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You've earned the right to grow. — Cheryl Strayed

Being with him felt unbearable, but being with anyone else did too. — Cheryl Strayed

It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star. — L.M. Montgomery

We yogied this from day hikers for you. — Cheryl Strayed

Tonight, I won't dream, because nobody
has held me and no hands have strayed and even
though I'm drunk with love, my arms are empty. — Melissa Lee-Houghton

I'd set out to hike the trail so that I could reflect upon my life, to think about everything that had broken me and make myself whole again. — Cheryl Strayed

Fountains of inconvenient feeling - and toward the frantic enticements of — Cheryl Strayed

quitting. But now, only ten days out, I was done. I wanted — Cheryl Strayed

I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. — Cheryl Strayed

I howled and howled and howled, rooting my face into her body like an animal. — Cheryl Strayed