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#1

“Have you ever loved someone so much that even when they chip pieces away from you, you still try to give them what’s left? I know I have… I know I do.”
― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back

tags: break-down, breakup, couple, heartbreak, hurt, love, sad, unrequited-love

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#2

“There’s an undeniable thrill about meeting a stranger and spending a few hours together, indulging in each other’s lives. It’s that spurt of saying whatever you want and leaving it behind with someone who’ll never look at you and think of it again.”
― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back

tags: blind-date, mystery, stranger, strangers, thrill

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#3

“The void inside me starts to fill, but my heart has holes, and whatever it holds will run out, leaving me empty once again.”
― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back

tags: empty, heart, holes, lonely, sad, void

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#4

“The ocean fascinates me too. How it connects everything and everyone, but at the same time it divides us. It’s a mystery, full of life and possibilities. It’s just…phenomenal.”
― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back

tags: fascinates, mystery, nature, phenomenal, sea

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#5

“I hate reading poems—school made me hate them. I’d spend hours interpreting one, just to read the memorandum and realize I’d be fucked during exams. I remember making a little asterisk next to every question I struggled with, and at the end of the paper, I’d realize I was looking at the fucking Milky Way.”
― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back

tags: college, exams, literature, memorandum, poems, school, struggle, tests

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#6

“A familiar sensation sparks inside me, the one I had a few years ago, the one that hurts because it’s dangerous and overwhelming. Knowing how it is to truly love someone is torturous. You try to bury that feeling. So you become lonely, deprived, and when you sense anything remotely like it, the emotion comes back to haunt you. It’s one sick fucking game.”
― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back

tags: alone, game, lonely, love, sad, torture

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#7

“It’s all about that cosy, homey feeling, the one you leave behind when you travel across the world.”
― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back

tags: au-pair, culture, home, homesick, travel, world

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#8

“As I rise from my seat, my notes almost fly to the floor. I quickly clutch them to my body before I awkwardly enter the interview room in a fucked-up-question-mark posture, walking as though I’m ten shits behind.”
― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back

tags: gait, posture, shit, stance, walking

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#9

“Many nights I watch the sun set. Many nights I watch the moon. They fascinate me. They’re the only things I get to share with everyone: the stars, the moon, the universe.”
― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back

tags: fascinating, moon, share, stars, universe

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#10

“It’s as if everyone got cancer the day I was diagnosed, except I’m their tumor.”
― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back

tags: brain-cancer, burden, cancer, tumor, tumour

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#11

“Getting an education might be difficult, but it makes life easy. Being uneducated might be easy, but it makes life difficult.”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: education, uneducated

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#12

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― David Baldacci, The Camel Club

tags: books, peace, people, reading, world

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#13

“Sorry, we've got ghosts.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

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#14

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

tags: books, reading

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#15

“dreams have no expiration date.”
― Cheryl Seagraves

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#16

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

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#17

“Lies don't end relationships the truth does.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: brutal-honesty, cheaters, conartists, denial, divorce, emotional-abuse, games, gaslighting, honesty, justice, liars, lies, manipulators, mind-games, narcissism, real-truth, relationships, secrets, truth

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#18

“I guess we’re all guilty at some point of failing to appreciate the small things, because when we use a broad brush to paint our exemplary lives, we splatter ourselves with ignorance.”
― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back

tags: appreciate, ideal-life, ignorance, life, life-lesson, taking-for-granted, unappreciative

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#19

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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#20

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

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#21

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: loneliness, misattributed

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