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1 " t may not be the life you imagined, but it’s your life. You came here for a reason. Is it time for you to go and begin again? "
― Doug Cooper , Outside In
2 " There’s a drive in a lost soul—in one that is searching for acceptance, companionship, belonging, whatever you want to call it. The slightest coincidence ignites a spark that one hopes will lead to something meaningful. "
3 " Cause and effect are rarely directly related. Justice has a mind of her own. "
4 " What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things. "
― Doug Cooper
5 " You earn brotherhood—the purest friendship, trust, love, whatever you want to call it—moment by moment through how you treat others. "
6 " Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road. "
7 " I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit. "
8 " Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward? "
9 " The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here. "
10 " To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice. "
11 " I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger. "
12 " Nothing worse than someone who goes to the dance, is excited to dance, dances all night, and then complains all the next day about his feet being sore. "
13 " I never get used to the faces--wide-eyed and full of possibility--staring bad at me. "
14 " Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before. "
15 " My discontent has accumulated over the past months, searching for a leak in the dam I’ve constructed to separate my true feelings from the situation closing in around me. "
16 " Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills. "
17 " I’m like a fish in a pool, turning quickly to avoid what challenges it. My only decision is whether to go right or left to sidestep confrontation. "
18 " When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and with whom I do it. "
19 " Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing. "
20 " There's nothing like an orgasm to force a person to think--and more often than not, to think too much. "
