This Telling Quotes

“I’m sorry,” she said and reached over and squeezed his leg. She couldn’t help but think that she’d ruined his life. It didn’t yet occur to her to wonder about having ruined her own.”
― Cheryl Strayed, This Telling

“She couldn’t help but think that she’d ruined his life. It didn’t yet occur to her to wonder about having ruined her own.”
― Cheryl Strayed, This Telling

“She’d kept the secret sealed so tightly inside her for so long it could not be extracted without altering who she was, she realized now. The secret was not separate from her. In the telling of it, she’d come undone.”
― Cheryl Strayed, This Telling

“Most of their stories were, like Geraldine’s, more mundane— young love for which they alone had paid the price.”
― Cheryl Strayed, This Telling

“She looked at her parents, clear-eyed and astonished, like she understood exactly who she was for the very first time. A prisoner of her own body.”
― Cheryl Strayed, This Telling