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He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

Cheryl Strayed

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Cheryl Strayed
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 17
Blogger
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Feminist
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Pennsylvania
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In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.
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I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.
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Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. 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.
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Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.
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My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.
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He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.
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What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?
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Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness.
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I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake.
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I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.
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What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?
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There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.
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...the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross.
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It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.
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I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one.
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Every time I set foot on that trail, I feel grateful for the PCTA for doing the work it does to protect and preserve it
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