Hiking The Pct Quotes
Hiking The Pct Quote of the day
Fire is not essential. Fire is warm comfort. From fire, cultures are born.
I realized that no, no one would actually come to save or even stop me, I had absolutely no choice. The scale tipped: the moment not doing it became more difficult and unbearable than just doing it.
Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament.
I walked without breaks, slept through nights without waking, inhumanly smooth – a small machine.
She taught me only how to need to be taken care of. I was here because I needed to learn to take responsibility for making my own decisions — to earn my own trust.
It felt amazing to make visible my boundaries.The rumors dissipated, then changed. Eventually I turned down enough men that I became the girl who turned down men.
I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love.
The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire.
I felt like I belonged to an ancient tradition of all young people given this same task of finding their own ways through to the futures they wanted for themselves.
I sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen.
death is not a pretty flower that had almost pricked me. It was not a small annoyance I could simply bypass and quickly disregard. It was really The End.
My path, beyond doubt or denial. I just hadn’t looked toward it. I wasn’t lost. I’d always known the way. If I’d only allowed myself to look. I had never been lost, only scared.
He hadn’t treated me with the love and compassion I wanted, but I was worthy of that love, and someday some boy would have it for me. I hadn’t found it yet, but I would find it soon.
My relationship with my mother trapped me in the identity of a child.