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    Adam Steven Page
    “People mourn the loss of a friend or loved one in many different ways, some turn to the bottle, others to something stronger just to get some warped sense of feeling something.”
    ― Adam Steven Page, A Victim of the Times
    tags: excerpt
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    Karen Azinger
    “Courage comes in the form of a girl.”
    ― Karen Azinger, The Steel Queen
    tags: action, adventure, epic, fantasy, fantasy-fiction
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    Karen Azinger
    “In the beginning there was only Darkness.”
    ― Karen Azinger, The Steel Queen
    tags: action, adventure, epic, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, magic
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    Karen Azinger
    “Seek Knowledge, Protect Knowledge, Share Knowledge.”
    ― Karen Azinger, The Steel Queen
    tags: action, adventure, epic, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, magic
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    Karen Azinger
    “Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control.”
    ― Karen Azinger, The Steel Queen
    tags: action, adventure, epic, fantasy, fiction-fantasy, magic
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    Karen Azinger
    “For Honor and the Octagon!”
    ― Karen Azinger, The Steel Queen
    tags: action, adventure, epic, fantasy, fiction, fiction-fantasy, magic
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    Danielle Esplin
    “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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    Danielle Esplin
    “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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    Danielle Esplin
    “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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    Danielle Esplin
    “It’s like I’m on a roller-coaster ride, but I’m not allowed to get off. I’m strapped to the seat, and within eyesight the unfinished twirl of the track swirls into the air.”
    ― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
    tags: cancer, defeated, dread, emotional, emotions, roller-coaster
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    Danielle Esplin
    “Ever since her diagnosis, she’s been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.”
    ― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
    tags: cancer, dim, dying, fading, light, sick
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    Danielle Esplin
    “Father", that sounds too dominant, too stern or Mufasa-like – he’s a coward, a low-budget, hand-fucking coward.”
    ― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
    tags: bad-father, father, interpretation, mufasa
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    Danielle Esplin
    “Oh, I just wasted two hundred dollars on a gym membership, which I didn’t use…even once. My shorts are getting shorter. Lately I’ve been looking like a slut—unintentionally of course.”
    ― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
    tags: exercise, gym, gym-membership, shorts, slut, workout
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    Danielle Esplin
    “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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    Danielle Esplin
    “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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    Danielle Esplin
    “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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    Danielle Esplin
    “Since her diagnoses she has been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.”
    ― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
    tags: brain-cancer, cancer, psychological-thriller, thriller
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    Danielle Esplin
    “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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    Danielle Esplin
    “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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    Danielle Esplin
    “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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    Danielle Esplin
    “He might not be here, but the day he misses an opportunity to party is the day Jocelyn Wildenstein is considered the paragon of beauty.”
    ― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
    tags: beauty, party, party-animal, sarcasm, unlikely
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    Danielle Esplin
    “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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    Danielle Esplin
    “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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    Danielle Esplin
    “I can hear the tick tick tick in my head: A tripwire ready to explode in fury. And then, in my mind, I start to count down from ten…any moment now.”
    ― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
    tags: anger, explode, furious, fury
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    Perri Birney
    “Power without compassion is deadly. Compassion devoid of power robs you of victory.”
    ― Perri Birney, Pure Vision: The Magdalene Revelation
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    Pawan Mishra
    “A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.”
    ― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
    tags: funny, humor, husband, longing, marriage, marriage-advice, marriage-humor, marriage-issues, peace, relationship, want, wife
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    Pawan Mishra
    “Isn’t life a collection of weird quizzes with no answers to half the questions?”
    ― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
    tags: ambiguity, answers, confusion, helplessness, life, puzzle, questions, quiz
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    Pawan Mishra
    “Most of a husband’s life is spent in doing research on his wife.”
    ― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
    tags: funny, humor, husband, marriage, marriage-advice, marriage-humor, marriage-issues, relationship, wife
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    Pawan Mishra
    “People say we have thousands of options in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy.”
    ― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
    tags: be-happy, happiness, happy, life, life-lessons, live-life-to-the-fullest, options, unhappy, wisdom, wise
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    Pawan Mishra
    “It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.”
    ― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
    tags: explaining, social-norms, socialization, veil, violence, violence-against-women, wounds
    26 likes



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