Emily

“What if I forgave myself? What if I forgave myself even though I’d done some things I shouldn’t have? What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time I wouldn’t do anything different from what I’d done? What if yes was the right answer instead of no? What if all those things I shouldn’t have done were what got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes

“Perhaps being among the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant I, too, could be undesecrated...the wilderness had a clarity that included me.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough

“we’re too old to be young.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“The particularity of our problems can be made bearable only through the recognition of our universal humanity. We suffer uniquely, but we survive the same way.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes