Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

Cheryl Strayed

Language: English

Published: Jul 10, 2012

Words: 106338
Annotations:
9142/21/2023 12:32:40

Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.


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46542/26/2023 01:44:56

In the middle of the night in the middle of your twenties when your best woman friend crawls naked into your bed, straddles you, and says, You should run away from me before I devour you, believe her.


48592/26/2023 21:35:48

The regrets you have about the jobs that mean nothing to you, the hours you wasted on social media, the friends and Friends you spent too much time with—they are the things that got you here. They are the dreams you’re waking up from. They are teaching you to float away from them, onward, into deeper waters, where you’ll have the opportunity to test yourself.

Pages: 323

Description:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu Original series The internationally acclaimed author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor and insight—and absolute honesty—this "wise and compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) book is a balm for everything life throws our way.
Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice.