Vartika Chandra

“[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Reading's my reward at the end of the day”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“When I believed that all the things I’d been before had prepared me for this journey. But nothing had or could. Each day on the trail was the only possible preparation for the one that followed. And sometimes even the day before didn’t prepare me for what would happen next.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail