Quotes from book
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail is a 2012 memoir by American author Cheryl Strayed, describing her 1,100-mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995 as a journey of self-discovery. The book reached No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list, and was the first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0.
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves…”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Variant: The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Variant: Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“Maybe I was more alone than anyone in the whole wide world. Maybe that was okay.”
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Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me”
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“That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.”
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“What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?”
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“We aren't poor," my mother said, again and again. "Because we're rich in love.”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
