The best Quotes by Cherly Strayed

Wha if 'yes' was the right answer instead of 'no'? What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

Wild - A Journey from lost to found

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. (...) Alone wasn't a room anymore, but the whole wide world, and now I was alone in that world, occupying it in a way I never had before.

Wild - A Journey from lost to found

I'd loved books in my regular life, but on the trail, they'd taken on even greater meaning. They were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear.

Wild - A Journey from lost to found

Fear, to great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.

Wild - A Journey from lost to found

I would want things to be different than they were. The wanting was a wilderness and i had to find my own way out of the woods.

Wild - A Journey from lost to found

I considered my options. There was only one, I knew. There was always only one. To keep walking.

Wild - A Journey from lost to found

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After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

Age

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

I want you to help them open... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Paulo Coelho

Change Beginning

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children & Childhood Family Parents

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Darkness

The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Love Beauty Valentine's Day

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

Solitude & Loneliness

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

"Lost something?"
"Yes, my mind."

Sebastian Fitzek in Splinter

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

"It's no use fretting for what you can't get," croaked the raven. "Does being angry make any difference? Be sensible! What can you do about it?"

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

Anger

There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.

Cornelia Funke in Reckless

Darkness Night

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

Pain

If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

Rainbows Rain

"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

Love Valentine's Day

If you live to be hundred, I hope i live to be hundred minus one day. So I never have to live without you.

A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

Friendship Love declerations

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey

Friendship

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

Jane Austen in Sense and Sensibility

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

Stephen King in It

Youth

J.K. Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever.

Stephen King - about Harry Potter

Joanne K. Rowling Quotes about Harry Potter

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

Music

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Victor Hugo in Les Misérables

Sun Night Beginning

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Angel's Game

Heart Breakup Sad Quotes

Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in Marina

Foolishness Age

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one wo is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life

For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness Minutes

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

Kash Patel in Government Gangsters

FBI

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