Wild - Cheryl Strayed

A great read.  Got to know some great stuff about REI , the PCT and John Muir.

Some memorable quotes:

The breaking of so great a thing should make an even greater crack
                                          - William Shakespeare ( Antony & Cleopatra).

She loved us more than all the named things in the world 
                                          -pg 14 (about her mother)

She was monolithic and insurmountable. the keeper of my life.
                                            - (about her mother) 

I prayed to the whole universe and hoped that God would be in it, listening to me..
then I faltered. Not because I couldnt find God, bug because suddenly I absolutely did:
God was there, I realized and God had no intention of making things happen or not..


Fear , to a great extent , is born of a story we tell ourselves.
                                             pg 51

I had to change. Not a different person but into a person I used to be .
                                             - pg 57


This was once Mozama, I kept remainding myself. This was once a wasteland of lava and pumice and ash. This was once an empty bowl that took hundreds of years to fill. But has 
as I tried, I couldnt see them in my minds evey. Not the mountain or the wasteland or the 
empty bowl. There was only the stillness and silence of that water.
                                             -  (About Crater lake) .

What if I forgave myself ? I thought . What if I forgave myself even though I have done something I shouldn't have ? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there as no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do ? What if I was sorry , but if I could go back in time I wouldn't do anything differently than I had done ? .. What if what made me do all these things everyone though I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here ? 
                                                   -- pg 258.