Tiny Beautiful Things By Cheryl Strayed Quotes

#1. They do the essential work of literary art: they make us more human than we were before. (from the Introduction to Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed)

Steve Almond

#2. I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

Ridley Scott

#3. Starbucks being an extension of peoples home and work. The sense of community, human connection. That appears to be as relevant in Turkey, China, Japan and Spain as it is here in America. And Starbucks I think is creating something for people all over the world that has not existed before.

Howard Schultz

#4. To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

Jeremy Taylor

#5. We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger.

Cheryl Strayed

#7. Which one do you think is tighter: my hand or your tight pussy?

Sarah Brianne

#8. All we know is what we're told.

Ashly Lorenzana

#9. Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

Isabella Stewart Gardner

#10. The miracle of modern science. The LEP pours millions into your department, Foaly, and all you can do is send Mud Boys to the toilet.

Eoin Colfer

#11. I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.

Reese Witherspoon

#12. In his parochial school, the nuns had advised him and his classmates that they should sleep each night on their backs with their arms crossed on their chests, hands on opposite shoulders- a presumably holy posture that, not incidentally, made masturbation impossible.

Gay Talese

#13. I'm a stranger," pointed out Bod. "You're not," she said, definitely. "You're a little boy." And then she said, "And you're my friend. So you can't be a stranger.

Neil Gaiman

#14. I slowly breathe in and out,and i find myself relaxing more and more with each breath

Louise Hay

#15. To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

Cheryl Strayed

#16. We are all entitled to our opinions and religious beliefs, but we are not entitled to make shit up and then use the shit we made up to oppress other people.

Cheryl Strayed

#17. You want to pass for a normal person? Don't tiptoe into people's bedrooms at night! Ever!'
'I can be creepy in front of you.'
'No, you can't! You need to go now.'
'I'll go watch the parentals.

Justine Larbalestier