Cheryl Strayed (Nyland; born September 17, 1968) is an American memoirist, novelist, and essayist. The author of four books, her award-winning writing has been published w...
Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here. Cheryl Strayed
Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.
Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore. Cheryl Strayed
Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.
If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees. Cheryl Strayed
If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.
Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else. Cheryl Strayed
Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.
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. Cheryl Strayed
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.
Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed. Cheryl Strayed
Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.
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
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.
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
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.
You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. Cheryl Strayed
You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.
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
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.
I've learned so much as both a writer and a human. Cheryl Strayed
I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.