It was only after her death that I realized who she was: the apparently magical force at the center of our family who'd kept us all invisibly spinnin… - Cheryl Strayed

Do you believe in reincarnation?” I asked as we looked together at the intricate drawings, reading bits about them in the paragraph of text on each page. “I don’t,” he said. “I believe we’re here once and what we do matters.

Trust that all you've learned was worth learning, no matter what answer you have or do not have about what practical use it has in your life. Let whatever mysterious starlight that guided you this far guide you onward into the crazy beauty that awaits.

These are not pretty things, but they are true things.