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Cheryl Strayed Quotes

Cheryl Strayed quotes

American Writer September 17, 1968

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Wounded?” was all I could manage. “Yes,” said Pat. “And you’re wounded in the same place. That’s what fathers do if they don’t heal their wounds. They wound their children in the same place. Cheryl Strayed
I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living. Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed quote: "I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering..."
I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. Cheryl Strayed
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 retreat to be who I really was. Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed quote: "He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her..."
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. Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed quote: "God is not a granter of wishes. God is a ruthless bitch."
God is not a granter of wishes. God is a ruthless bitch. Cheryl Strayed
The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years, seven months, and three days to do it. I didn't know where I was going until I got there. It was a place called the Bridge of the Gods. Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed quote: "The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would..."
The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back. Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed quote: "Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar...."
Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill. Cheryl Strayed
But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first. Cheryl Strayed
I was a terrible believer in things, but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith, or if there was such a place, or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake. Cheryl Strayed
Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will. Cheryl Strayed
...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy. Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed quote: "I've learned so much as both a writer and a human."
I've learned so much as both a writer and a human. Cheryl Strayed
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 your head. Cheryl Strayed

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