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Once and Again
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by Rebecca Serle (Goodreads Author)
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You can’t re-create the first time you promise to love someone or the first time you feel loved by another. You cannot relive the sensation of fear, admiration, self-consciousness, passion, and desire all mixed into one because it never ...more
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Rebecca Serle
“What got you here won't get you there.”
Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

John Boyne
“I remember a friend of mine once telling me that we hate what we fear in ourselves,”
John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

Eilene B. Zimmerman
“If people in white collar professional jobs, who are among our society's most well educated, driven, and high achieving citizens are becoming addicts, what does that say about us as a society?

I ask myself, what is the point of being here at all, of striving to achieve success, and careers, and personal lives, if so many want to escape once they get there?”
Eilene B. Zimmerman, Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

Dawnie Walton
“- I have no argument with faith, understand, so long as it helps one to cope with the slings and arrows of life while keeping its hands outside of my pockets -
Virgil LaFleur”
Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

Beau Taplin
“Perhaps you are not yet where you feel you should be, but from one dreamer to another, a careful word of advice: You could reach every last one of your goals and still find yourself unfulfilled at the finishing line.

The true essence of life exists in the in between. It is in the striving that your excellence is exposed to the world. It is in the setbacks that the strength of your spirit is learned. In the unfinished dream lies the full and burning heart of life.
It is only a spell of the mind, an artful deception, that you might find fulfillment in fortune, fame, perfection or power. Life is lived here: In the distance you still have left to travel. The is where the true magic happens.

- The Ascent”
Beau Taplin, Here at Dawn

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