524 Quotes by Cheryl Strayed

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

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    A few times a year I'll remember that I love old literature, too. Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is one of my 10 favorite books. I have to go out of my way to remember to pick up a book like that, but when I do I'm blown away by how very relevant it still is.

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    Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed to get anything from my pack; I'd only wanted to be alone. 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.

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    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 to me.

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    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.

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    With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which I read recently. I want to forget I have a book in my hand.

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    I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.

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