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...
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.
Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work. Cheryl Strayed
Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free. Cheryl Strayed
I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.
You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else. Cheryl Strayed
You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.
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.
The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back. Cheryl Strayed
The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.
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.
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.
How wild it was, to let it be. Cheryl Strayed
How wild it was, to let it be.
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
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.
I am, as they say, the classic starving artist. Cheryl Strayed
I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.