Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

Writing background
In addition to her books Wild Tiny Beautiful Things and Torch Strayed has publiCheryl Strayedd essays in various magazines including The Washington Post Magazine The New York Times Magazine Vogue Allure The Missouri Review and The Sun Magazine. In October 2012 "Torch" was re-issued by Vintage Books with a new introduction by Strayed. ISBN 978-0307949332
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Knopf on March 20 2012 and has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 2010 Strayed began writing the "Dear Sugar" advice column for the literary web site The Rumpus. Cheryl Strayed (born September 17 1968) is an American memoirist novelist and essayist.