I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you'll say: ... Carry it with me, as I do everything … - Cheryl Strayed

I’ll never know, and neither will you of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

They realized that, in fact, the lie wasn't safe. That it threatened their existence more profoundly than the truth did.

And if there’s one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it’s that you can’t fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out.