Author: Cheryl Strayed

Cites

• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Wild (2012) Non-fiction, Memoir, American
    EPIGRAPH: "The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack."
    FROM: Antony and Cleopatra, (1623), Play, UK
• Adrienne Rich (1)
  • IN: Wild (2012) Non-fiction, Memoir, American
    EPIGRAPH: "The words are purposes. The words are maps."
    FROM: "Diving into the Wreck", (1973), Poem, US
• Joni Mitchell (1)
  • IN: Wild (2012) Non-fiction, Memoir, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Will you take me as I am? Will you?
    FROM: "California", (1966), Song, Canada
• John Muir (1)
  • IN: Wild (2012) Non-fiction, Memoir, American
    EPIGRAPH: "We are now in the mountains and they are in us..."
    FROM: My First Summer in the Sierra, (1911), Book, UK
• Emily Dickinson (1)
  • IN: Wild (2012) Non-fiction, Memoir, American
    EPIGRAPH: "If your Nerve, deny you -- / Go above your Nerve --"
    FROM: #292, (1935), Poem, US
• Robert Pinsky (1)
  • IN: Wild (2012) Non-fiction, Memoir, American
    EPIGRAPH: "When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof."
    FROM: "Samurai Song", (1999), Song, US
• Winston Churchill (1)
  • IN: Wild (2012) Non-fiction, Memoir, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Never never never give up."
    FROM: 1941 Harrow Hall Commencement Speech, (1941), Speech, UK
• Abraham Lincoln (1)
  • IN: Wild (2012) Non-fiction, Memoir, American
    EPIGRAPH: "I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back."
    FROM: NULL, (1858), NULL, US
• Mary Oliver (1)
  • IN: Wild (2012) Non-fiction, Memoir, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tell me, what is it you plan to do / With your one wild and precious life?
    FROM: "The Summer Day", (1992), Poem, US
• Charlotte Brontë (1)
  • IN: Torch (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
    FROM: Jane Eyre, (1847), Novel, UK