I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in relationships.

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

I love music and listen to music all the time, but I didn't realize how much my body needed music. I needed it more than sex.

That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

Aside from marrying my husband and having my children, hiking the PCT was the best thing I ever did. The hike very literally forced me to put one foot in front of the other at a time when emotionally I didn't think I could do that.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.