Cheryl Strayed If Quotations

What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do?What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?

What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.