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Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves... (Cheryl Strayed)
In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story. View quote
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The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back. View quote
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My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure. View quote
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It was only after her death that I realized who she was: the apparently magical force at the center of our family who'd kept us all invisibly spinning in the powerful orbit around her. View quote
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We aren't poor," my mother said, again and again. "Because we're rich in love. View quote
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My whole life sort of ended when my mom died. View quote
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I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. View quote
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I am, as they say, the classic starving artist. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear. View quote
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It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have. View quote
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Hello, fear. Thank you for being here. You're my indication that I'm doing what I need to do. View quote
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You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding. View quote
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Alone had always felt like an actual place to me. View quote
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What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? View quote
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Reading's my reward at the end of the day. View quote
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Maybe I was more alone than anyone in the whole wide world. Maybe that was okay. View quote
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I would want things to be different than they were. The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. View quote
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There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise. (Cheryl Strayed)
Being with him felt unbearable, but being with anyone else did too. View quote
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Writing is hard.... Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig. View quote
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There's always a sunrise and always a sunset and it's up to you to choose to be there for it,' said my mother. 'Put yourself in the way of beauty. View quote
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And so I walked on. View quote
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