Amanda

“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.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

“i fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change...”
― ani difranco

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway