No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

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.

Don't waste your one beautiful life.

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.

I look at my career and how I'm doing it now. I feel like there is something authentic in that process that I still try not to over manipulate. When I feel something, I try to listen to that.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.

When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.

I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.

Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.

There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Love is not words, it's actions, and love isn't feelings, it's a decision.