Don't waste your one beautiful life.

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.

No mother should lose her child.

The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him. But even that didn't feel like anything anymore.

Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

If knowledge is lacking, your destruction is inevitable. Hosea 4:6

Witchcraft is a path of personal freedom.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.

Find something you love, because if you love what you do, you'll never spend a day at work.

There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!

Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own