- The heart is not a box that gets filled up, it just expands the more you love. -Her
- Love is not even wanting to go to sleep, 'cause then you might have to be without them for a minute, and you wouldn't want that. -Poussey, OITNB
- It's like you become more you. Which normally is like - (exploding noises) - but now it's okay, because the person, like, whoever, they chose to take all that on. All that weird stuff, whatever's wrong, or bad, or hiding in you. And suddenly, it's alright, and you don't feel like such a freak anymore. -Susanne, OITNB
- Blood is thicker than water, my mother has always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I'd often disputed. But it turned out that it didn't matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms. -Cheryl Strayed, Wild
- The thing about the Pacific Crest Trail, the thing that was so profound to me that summer - and yet also, like most things, so very simple - was how few choices I had and how often I had to do the thing I least wanted to do. . . I could only choose between the bull that would take me back and the bull that would take me forward. And so I walked on. -Cheryl Strayed, Wild
- Strayed: To wander from the proper path, to deviate from the direct course, to be lost, to become wild, to be without a mother or father, to be without a home, to move about aimlessly in search of something, to diverge or digress. -Cheryl Strayed, Wild
- The air came alive with the sound of the wind whipping the trees at times and at other times it was profoundly hushed by the endless silencing snow. Everything but me seemed certain of itself. The sky didn't wonder where it was. -Cheryl Strayed, Wild
- Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid. -Cheryl Strayed, Wild
- It was all unknown to me then, as I sat on that white bench the day I finished my hike. Everything except the fact that I didn't have to know. . . How wild it was, to let it be. -Cheryl Strayed, Wild
- 'I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.' -Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” -Dr. Seuss, Oh The Places You’ll Go!
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