Uzma Khalid

“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, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“We aren't poor," my mother said, again and again. "Because we're rich in love.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“      If your Nerve, deny you –       Go above your Nerve – EMILY DICKINSON”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“I've given you everything," she insisted again and again in her last days. "Yes," I agreed. She had, it was true. She did. She did. She'd come at us with maximum maternal velocity. She hadn't held back a thing, not a single lick of her love.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail