Collette Vonlintel

“All of that was impossible now, regardless of what the letter said. My mom was dead. My mom was dead. My mom was dead. Everything I ever imagined about myself had disappeared into the crack of her last breath.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“I stopped in my tracks when that thought came into my mind, that hiking the PCT was the hardest thing I’d ever done. Immediately, I amended the thought. Watching my mother die and having to live without her, that was the hardest thing I’d ever done. Leaving Paul and destroying our marriage and life as I knew it for the simple and inexplicable reason that I felt I had to—that had been hard as well. But hiking the PCT was hard in a different way. In a way that made the other hardest things the tiniest bit less hard.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring