Ivy Costa

“I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances or life, but because even in my darkest days—those very days in which I was naming myself—I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“You don't deserve this life, baby, and there isn't a fucking thing I can do to make it better for you”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“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

“Maybe I was more alone than anyone in the whole wide world. Maybe that was okay.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail