I'd never had a mind for math. ... It was a logic that made little sense to me. In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or a formula or an equatio… - Cheryl Strayed

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or a formula or an equation. It was a story

You go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage.

Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed to get anything from my pack; I'd only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

They opened my mind to realities I didn’t know existed. They forced me to be resilient, to sacrifice, to see how little I knew, and also how much.