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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed

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.

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“He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.”

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“Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it turned out that it didn’t matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms.”

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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 was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.”

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“I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.”

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“Reading's my reward at the end of the day”

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“I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.”

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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.”

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“Being with him felt unbearable, but being with anyone else did too.”

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“It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.”

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“I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong, in getting myself here, I'd done right.”

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