Lisa L'isle

“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

“The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into battle when it’s necessary to do so. If you don’t get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“We would be a few years younger,if every day we meditated for five minutes on the meanings of the word innocence.”
― Alexandra Vasiliu, The King of Time: An Illustrated Fairy Tale

“Flora’s heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside her.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures