I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. "I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me." "Oh, Mom," was all I could say as I stroked her hand. I was too young to say anything else."


Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found (ed. Atlantic Books Ltd, 2012) - ISBN: 9780857897770

Cheryl Strayed Quotes

I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life, she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. I always did what...

I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life, she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. I always did what...

I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life, she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. I always did what...

I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life, she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. I always did what...