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Son of the Storm (The Nameless Republic, #1)

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Jakes’s Quotes

“I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.
I don't want it to win.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

tags: darkness, death, depression, life, mental-issue, metal-illness, suicide

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“You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

tags: depression, love

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“Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

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“How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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“I once read in my physics book that the universe begs to be observed, that energy travels and transfers when people pay attention. Maybe that's what love really boils down to--having someone who cares enough to pay attention so that you're encouraged to travel and transfer, to make your potential energy spark into kinetic energy.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

tags: depression, love, mental-health, physics

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