133 quotes found
“Happy people have everything to give.”
“Fire is not essential. Fire is warm comfort. From fire, cultures are born.”
“I wanted him to declare in shock how overlooked and underestimated I had been ever since I was a child. How lucky he felt to be the one to have discovered me, to have me. I wanted him to look at me...”
“I wanted him to look at me like maybe I was magic.”
“I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love.”
“I dont remember having one conversation with my dad in the three days I was home, but looking back at my journal, I see I wrote about him. I scrawled about how I heard him telling my mom that I nee...”
“It felt amazing to make visible my boundaries.The rumors dissipated, then changed. Eventually I turned down enough men that I became the girl who turned down men.”
“He was sprightly and uncommonly good looking, with a quiet, magnanimous confidence that attracted people. He was my hero, too, and I listened to him. He gave me lots of wise advice. He told me to p...”
“I was going to mean what I said, to be direct and firm.I found my moleskin notebook and on the page behind the pages addressed to Never-Never and my familytwo unsent lettersI wrote: I am the direct...”
“Already, this little-walked gigantic trail through my countrys Western wilderness held in my mind the promise of escape from myself, the liberation only a huge transformation could grant me. This w...”
“The PCT would lead me to an otherworld, through the sadness I felt here, out of it.”
“I was no longer following a trail. I was learning to follow myself.”
“I needed only to allow myself to know what I already knew.”
“It took me almost two thousand miles in the woods to see I had to do some hard work that wasnt simply walkingthat I needed to begin respecting my own bodys boundaries. I had to draw clear lines. On...”
“In lovesickness we had found a common language.”
“I wanted to come close to fierce wild things. They seemed prehistoric, rare and sacred.”
“She taught me only how to need to be taken care of. I was here because I needed to learn to take responsibility for making my own decisions to earn my own trust.”
“Im so drunk, I said through the bathroom door, though it wasnt true. Id declared it to him in my anxiety to take pressure and responsibility off of myself for what I wanted to do next. I had alread...”
“The wisdom of my body had cultivated vibrantly since those sadness-drunken months after the rape when Id felt so numbed by the hurt and shame that I didnt move further. No longer. The way I felt ab...”
“These tools were my parents way of saying: What youre doing is important. We support it. We want to help you find your way.”
