“The real satire starts when I’m shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked.”— Munia Khan Related Quotes “There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise.”— Cheryl Strayed “I lay down in the mother ash dirt among the crocuses and told her it was okay. That I’d surrendered. That since she died, everything had changed. Things she couldn’t have imagined and wouldn’t have guessed. My words came out low and steadfast. I was so sad it felt as if someone were choking me, and yet it seemed my whole life depended on my getting those words out. She would always be my mother, I told her, but I had to go. She wasn’t there for me in that flowerbed anymore anyway, I explained. I’d put her somewhere else. The only place I could reach her. In me.”— Cheryl Strayed “Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.”— John Donne