Cheryl Strayed Wild Quotations

I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances or life, but because even in my darkest days—those very days in which I was naming myself—I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before.

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

My mom said there's a sunrise and a sunset every day and you can choose to be there or not. You can put yourself in the way of beauty.