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The Writing Retreat

by Julia Bartz (Goodreads Author)

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Sound of Drowning, The by Katherine Fleet

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the feeling of being with a person who somehow sees past all the bleak parts of you to find the tiny shards of light hiding underneath.

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: chance, happiness, risk

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“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: smile

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“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: life

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“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: drunk-dialing

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