524 Quotes by Cheryl Strayed

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light,” I.

You cannot convince people to love you.

I’d been a girl forever, after all, familiar with and reliant upon the powers my very girlness granted me.

In my perception, the world wasn’t a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

Men’s stories are seen as universal, women’s as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

You get to define the terms of your life. You get to negotiate and articulate the complexities and contradictions of your feelings...

It required me to suffer. It compelled me to reach.

What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I’d done something I shouldn’t have? What.

There are stories you’ll learn if you’re strong enough to travel there. One of them might cure you.