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Bad Words

by Rioghnach Robinson (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 28, 2026 08:03PM

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Big Kids, Bigger Feelings: Navigating Defiance, Meltdowns, and Anxiety to Raise Confident, Connected Kids

by Alyssa Blask Campbell

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“I felt need. It was you. I can never allow myself to need you. So, my only choice is to make you need me, because ridding myself of you is no longer an option.”
― Renea Mason, Symphony of Light and Winter

tags: love, need, passion, want

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“I don't cry because we've been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we're still together.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: distance, long-distance-love, long-distance-relationships

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“I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

tags: childhood, decision-making

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“Do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”
― Rumi

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“Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

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