You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holdi… - Cheryl Strayed

You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding.

You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding.

You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt.

You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding.

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 spinning in the powerful orbit around her.

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

We aren’t poor,” my mother said, again and again. “Because we’re rich in love.