When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly brush my teeth. I tried to feel something like excitement but came up only with a morose unease. Every now and then I could see myself-truly see myself-and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was 'the woman with the hole in her heart'. That was me.
Cheryl StrayedThere isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.
Cheryl StrayedYou can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.
Cheryl StrayedBecause when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what sheโs actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity.
Cheryl Strayed