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“These pieces are nothing short of dynamite, the kind of remarkable, revelatory storytelling that makes young people want to become writers in the first place. Over here at the Salon offices, we're reading the columns with boxes of tissue and raised fists of solidarity, shaking our heads... read more
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“We live and have experiences and leave people we love and get left by them. People we thought would be with us forever aren't and people we didn't know would come into our lives do. Our work here is to keep faith with that, to put it in a box and wait. To trust that someday we will know what it means, so that when the ordinary miraculous is revealed to us we will be there.”
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“The question isn't whether you should stay or go. The question is, How would your life be transformed if you chose to live this time for once with all your intelligence?”
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“When you reach the place that you recognize entirely that you will thrive not in spite of your losses and sorrows, but because of them. That you would not have chosen the things that happened in your life, but you are grateful for them. That you have the two empty bowls in your hands, but you also have the capacity to fill them.”
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“There are so many tiny revolutions in a life, a million ways we have to circle around ourselves to grow and change and be okay.”
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“The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in a life. For some of you, those things have already happened. Whatever hapens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will. (pages 132-133)”
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“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 have befallen 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. (page 202)”
Sugar
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Long ago, before there was Sugar, there was Stephen Elliot.
Table of Contents edit
INTRODUCTION
Part I: IT WAS ALWAYS ONLY US
Like an Iron Bell
How You Get Unstuck
That ecstatic Parade
A Motorcycle with No One on It
The Reckoning
There's a Bundle on Your Head
Write Like a Motherfucker
A New, More Fractured Light
Dudes in the Woods
Icky Thoughts Turn Me On
Reach
Part II: WHATEVER MYSTERIOUS STARLIGHT THAT GUIDED YOU THIS FAR
The Baby Bird
Go! Go! Go!
The Black Arc of It
Hell is Other People's Boyfriends
Thwack, Thwack, Thwack
The Woman hanging on the End of the Line
No Mystery About Sperm
The Mad Sex Confessor
The Future Has an Ancient Heart
Faux Friendship Footsie
The Human Scale
Part III: CARRY THE WATER YOURSELF
Beauty and the Beast
I Chose van Gough
The Other Side of the Pool
The Truth That Lives There
Too Much Paint
Tiny Revolutions
Not Enough
No is Golden
Romantic Love is Not a Competitive Sport
A Big Life
The Known Unknowns
On Your Island
Part IV: YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE BROKEN FOR ME
The Magic of Wanting to Be
A Glorious Something Else
A Tunnel That Wakes You
How the Real Work is Done
The Ghost Ship That Didn't Carry Us
Your Invisible Inner Terrible Someone
Waiting by the Phone
We Are All Savages Inside
The Lusty Broad
The Bad Things You Did
Bend
The Obliterated Place
Part V: PUT IT IN A BOX AND WAIT
A Bit of Sully in Your Sweet
We Are Here to Build the House
The Empty Bowl
Transcend
A Shimmering Slice of Your Mysterious Destiny
The Ordinary Miraculous
We Call This a Clusterfuck
Are You My Mother?
Ten Angry Boys
Tiny Beautiful Things
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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- Cheryl Strayed (Author)
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