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“I want you to remember what I said: We teach people how to treat us.”
― Christina George, Climax

“One minute the birds are singing and you’re doing something mindless like folding laundry or reading a book, and the next moment you’re staring at a heap of smoking rubble that used to be your life or the doctor is telling you that something odd showed up on a scan. There was no warning, no one to tap you on the shoulder and say, “Hey, you might want to get pay attention; your world is about to end.” There is just devastation, destruction, and the shock that reverberates through your body and leaves you feeling hollowed out. Winner”
― Christina George, Climax

“Nothing will ever be that way again, because now life is divided into two parts: Before and after. And you try to move on from that one moment, that one second that changed everything,”
― Christina George, Climax

“Sometimes I want to slap a sticky note on my forehead that says, “I am sick. No, I don’t look sick at this moment. But I am not faking having a disease just because I’m not in a wheelchair, and I am not a freak.” Now,”
― Kimberly Rae, Sick and Tired: Empathy, encouragement, and practical help for those suffering from chronic health problems

“Why does it bother me to tell people I have health problems? Doesn’t everybody at some point? I suppose that’s the crux right there. For most people, the difference is in the “some point” part. They have a problem. They go to the doctor. Doctor fixes it. Life moves on. It was a small, annoying inconvenience. For me, and likely for you since you’re reading this, your problem is not so temporary. You’ve got it for life, or until science finds a cure, which for some diseases is as likely as winning the lottery when you haven’t even bought a ticket. So we make people nervous. Nobody wants to have a condition that affects their social outings, work choices, family life, and just general day-to-day stuff. Nobody picks that for what they want to be when they grow up. “Oh teacher!” The kindergartener excitedly raises his hand. “When I grow up, I want to have a chronic illness and have people say how strong and courageous I am for enduring it even though I don’t have any choice in the matter! Woo-hoo.” Instead,”
― Kimberly Rae, Sick and Tired: Empathy, encouragement, and practical help for those suffering from chronic health problems

“For those of us with chronic illness, we’ve had to give up some or all of those freedoms. And they probably didn’t seem like freedoms at the time. We likely took them for granted until our bodies took them from us. Now here we are, active brains inside limited, broken bodies. But as technology has yet to create a way to get an entire body transplant, we’re stuck with it. Unless, of course, you have a neurological problem, as I think I might, in which case I’m sorry about your brain. Getting a brain transplant is a seriously bad idea. You would not even know who you were, and would not appreciate how much better you were feeling. I”
― Kimberly Rae, Sick and Tired: Empathy, encouragement, and practical help for those suffering from chronic health problems

“Grief is not a one-time thing for people with chronic health problems. Just like people grieving the loss of a loved one find the sadness washes over them at holidays or family events or even unexpected everyday moments, we who are grieving the loss of ourselves, or our former lives, will find the feelings come at random—when someone mentions an activity we used to love, or even something as simple as spilling a glass of milk, or not being able to find our keys. It doesn’t mean you’re a failure. It means you’re human. And it’s okay. Then”
― Kimberly Rae, Sick and Tired: Empathy, encouragement, and practical help for those suffering from chronic health problems

“If there is any need that is perpetually unmet on this planet, it is the need to feel seen. To feel seen in our humanity, in our vulnerability, in our beautiful imperfection. When we are held safe in that, a key turns inside of our hearts, freeing us from our isolation, transforming our inner world. If there is anything we can offer each other, it is the gift of sight. “I see you”-perhaps the most important words we can utter to another. I see you…”
― Jeff Brown

“So called 'late-bloomers' get a bad rap. Sometimes the people with the greatest potential often take the longest to find their path because their sensitivity is a double edged sword- it lives at the heart of their brilliance, but it also makes them more susceptible to life's pains. Good thing we aren't being penalized for handing in our purpose late. The soul doesn't know a thing about deadlines.”
― Jeff Brown, Love It Forward

“Never read too much into other people’s actions—most of the time it’s got nothing to do with you anyway.”
― Stephanie Taylor, There’s Always a Catch

“We all face problems. We all face negativity and unpleasant incidents – and we tend to replay these events over and over in our minds, wondering what we could have done, or feeling angry or upset about what happened. These negative events can be things from our childhood, or things that happened five minutes ago – like that jerk who just cut you off. Negative”
― A.J. Winters, The Motivation Switch: 77 Ways to Get Motivated, Avoid Procrastination, and Achieve Success

“When writing, there are some scenes that are emotionally overwhelming. They completely overcome the author, and only when they do this can they cause a similar reaction in the reader.

Through this, the author gets to experience multiple lives. If a character's life flashes before their eyes, it flashes before the author's eyes too, and he or she remembers it as his or her own.

With reading, we get to live other lives vicariously, and this is doubly so with writing. It is like a lucid dream, where we guide the outcome. In this, we don't merely write *about* a character -- we momentarily *become* them, and walk as they walk, think as they think, and do as they do. When we return to our own life, we might return a little shaken, likely a little stronger, hopefully a little wiser.

What is certain is that we return better, because experiencing the lives of others makes us understand their aims and dreams, their fears and foils, the challenges and difficulties, and joys and triumphs, that they face. It helps us grow and empathise, and see all the little pictures that make up the bigger one we see from the omniscience of the narrator.”
― Dean F. Wilson

“Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Skyshaker

“That was the trouble with explaining with words. If you explained with gunpowder, people listened.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Dustrunner

“Nox didn’t say a word. He waited, counting the seconds in his mind. Sometimes you counted bullets and sometimes you counted time. Either one could kill you.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Rustkiller

“The silence just allowed the echoes of the question to play out in Nox’s mind, reminding him of his own unwinnable war against the never-ending tide of conmen and criminals. He was trying to clean up these parts, but every time he rubbed away a stain, he found another layer of dirt beneath. So, you could give up—or you could keep on scrubbing.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Coilhunter

“Don’t make deals with your food. It may come back to haunt you.”
― P.D. Alleva, The Rose Vol. 1

“Vampires…always so overdramatic.”
― P.D. Alleva, The Rose Vol. 1

“Vampires, nothing more than cockroaches scattering in fear at the first sign of the light.”
― P.D. Alleva, The Rose Vol. 1