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

#beauty

You get to define the terms of your life. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#life #beauty

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

— Cheryl Strayed

#relationships #truth #beauty

The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#life #life-lessons #recovering #beauty

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#healing #love #miscarriage #solidarity #suffering

I put her burnt bones into my mouth and swallowed them whole. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#loss #remains #death

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#artist #classic #i #i am #say

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#animal #brought #encountered #her #home

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

#come #death #exist #grown #her

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#ended #life #mom #sort #whole