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Cheryl Strayed
“I know it's hard to write, darling. But it's harder not to. The only way you'll find out if you "have it in you" is to get to work and see if you do.”
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Gillian Flynn
“It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.”
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

Cheryl Strayed
“My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.”
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
tags: grief

Cheryl Strayed
“Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.”
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Cheryl Strayed
“Oh, the dream. The goddamned man + baby dream. Written by the High Commission on Heterosexual Love and Sexual Reproduction and practiced by couples across the land, the dream's a bitch if you're a maternally inclined straight female and not living it by the age of thirty-seven -- a situation of a spermicidally toxic flavor. Of course you want to bring out your six-shooter every time you see another bloated mom hoisting up another pinched-faced spawn on Facebook. You want the dream too!”
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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