Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a s…

Cheryl Strayed
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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. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2012). Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found, p.107, Atlantic Books Ltd
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Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2012). Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found, p.128, Atlantic Books Ltd
A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.
The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2012). Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found, p.30, Atlantic Books Ltd
Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. … ▶
There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let the man who doesn't love you be one of them. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2012). Tiny Beautiful Things: … ▶

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. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2012). Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found, p.107, Atlantic Books Ltd

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