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Book by Danielle Esplin · 12 quotes · Sad, Lonely, Love

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All Sad Lonely Love Alone Appreciate Au Pair Beauty Break Down Breakup Cancer College Couple Culture Dim Dying Empty Exams Exercise Fading Fascinates

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“Ever since her diagnosis, she’s been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.”

Light Dying Sick Cancer Fading Dim

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“I hate reading poems—school made me hate them. I’d spend hours interpreting one, just to read the memorandum and realize I’d be fucked during exams. I remember making a little asterisk next to every question I struggled with, and at the end of the paper, I’d realize I was looking at the fucking Milky Way.”

School Literature Struggle College Tests Poems Exams Memorandum

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“It’s all about that cosy, homey feeling, the one you leave behind when you travel across the world.”

World Home Culture Travel Homesick Au Pair

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“I guess we’re all guilty at some point of failing to appreciate the small things, because when we use a broad brush to paint our exemplary lives, we splatter ourselves with ignorance.”

Life Ignorance Appreciate Life Lesson Ideal Life Taking For Granted Unappreciative

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“Many nights I watch the sun set. Many nights I watch the moon. They fascinate me. They’re the only things I get to share with everyone: the stars, the moon, the universe.”

Universe Stars Share Moon Fascinating

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“A familiar sensation sparks inside me, the one I had a few years ago, the one that hurts because it’s dangerous and overwhelming. Knowing how it is to truly love someone is torturous. You try to bury that feeling. So you become lonely, deprived, and when you sense anything remotely like it, the emotion comes back to haunt you. It’s one sick fucking game.”

Love Sad Lonely Alone Torture Game

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“The void inside me starts to fill, but my heart has holes, and whatever it holds will run out, leaving me empty once again.”

Heart Sad Lonely Empty Holes Void

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“The ocean fascinates me too. How it connects everything and everyone, but at the same time it divides us. It’s a mystery, full of life and possibilities. It’s just…phenomenal.”

Nature Mystery Sea Phenomenal Fascinates

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“He might not be here, but the day he misses an opportunity to party is the day Jocelyn Wildenstein is considered the paragon of beauty.”

Party Beauty Sarcasm Unlikely Party Animal

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“As I rise from my seat, my notes almost fly to the floor. I quickly clutch them to my body before I awkwardly enter the interview room in a fucked-up-question-mark posture, walking as though I’m ten shits behind.”

Walking Posture Stance Shit Gait

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“Oh, I just wasted two hundred dollars on a gym membership, which I didn’t use…even once. My shorts are getting shorter. Lately I’ve been looking like a slut—unintentionally of course.”

Exercise Gym Workout Shorts Slut Gym Membership

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“Have you ever loved someone so much that even when they chip pieces away from you, you still try to give them what’s left? I know I have… I know I do.”

Love Hurt Couple Sad Heartbreak Breakup Unrequited Love Break Down

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