As close as we'd been when we were together, we were closer in our unraveling, telling each other everything at last, words that seemed to us might n… - Cheryl Strayed

What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart.

Grief is tremendous, but love is bigger. You are grieving because you loved truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of death. Allowing this into your consciousness will not keep you from your suffering, but it will help you survive the next day.

The thing about hiking the Pacific Coast Trial, the thing that was so profound to me that summer — and yet also, like many things, so very simple — was how few choices I had and how often I had to do the thing I least wanted to do. How there was no escape or denial. (69)