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Operation Bounce House

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

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Kjersten’s Quotes

“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.”
― Alphonse de Lamartine

tags: angelic, human, love

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“Home is behind, the world ahead,
and there are many paths to tread
through shadows to the edge of night,
until the stars are all alight.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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“Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders them deaf when women say, "No thanks," "Not interested," or even "Fuck off, creep.”
― Jon Krakauer, Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

tags: assailants, assault, assaults, behavior, catcalling, communication, culture, disrespect, feminism, gender, gender-roles, harassment, men-and-women, men-s-behavior, misogynist, misogyny, not-listening, personal-autonomy, personal-experience, personal-experiences, personal-space, predators, predatory-behavior, problems-in-the-world, problems-of-today, problems-with-men, problems-with-society, rape, rape-culture, rapists, saying-no, sexism, sexual-abuse, sexual-assault, sexual-violence, sexuality, street-harassment, survivors, verbal-abuse, victims, women, women-and-men, women-s-experiences, women-s-issues, women-s-rights

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“This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: inspirational, philosophical, romance, spiritual

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“She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: love

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