Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Quotes.

1. "I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. Insisting on this story was a form of mind control, but for the most part, it worked."
- Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

2. "As close as we had been when we were together, we were closer in our unraveling, telling each other everything at last, words that seemed to us might never have been spoken between two human beings before, so deep we went, saying everything that was beautiful and ugly and true."
- Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

3. "And you’re wounded in the same place. That’s what fathers do if they don’t heal their wounds. They wound their children in the same place."
- Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

4. "I could only be who it seemed I had to be."
- Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

5. "I didn’t wake from these dreams crying. I woke shrieking. Paul grabbed me and held me until I was quiet. He wetted a washcloth with cool water and put it over my face. But those wet washcloths couldn’t wash the dreams of my mother away. Nothing did. Nothing would. Nothing could ever bring my mother back or make it okay that she was gone. Nothing would put me beside her the moment she died. It broke me up. It cut me off. It tumbled me end over end."
- Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

6. "I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me."
- Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

7. "Most of the people I met on the PCT passed only briefly through my life, but I was enriched by each of them. They made me laugh they made me think, they made me go on another day, and most of all, they made me trust entirely in the kindness of strangers."
- Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

8. "I was twenty-two, the same age she was when she’d been pregnant with me. She was going to leave my life at the same moment that I came into hers, I thought."
- Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

9. "It was a world I’d never been to and yet had known was there all along, one I’d staggered to in sorrow and confusion and fear and hope. A world I thought would both make me into the woman I knew I could become and turn me back into the girl I’d once been."
- Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

10. "Just as I’d seemed to be doing okay after my mom died. Grief doesn’t have a face."
- Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail