Try to be in as many relationships as you can. - Cheryl Strayed

It was the thing that had grown in me that I’d remember years later, when my life became unmoored by sorrow. The thing that would make me believe that hiking the Pacific Crest Trail was my way back to the person I used to be.

She was. She was imperfect. She made mistakes. But she was her best self more often than it’s reasonable for any human to be.

"The void?" I'd asked, crestfallen.
"it's a good thing," she said. "It's the place where things are born, where they begin. Think about how a black hole absorbs energy and then releases it into something that's new and alive."