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    A.B. Shepherd
    “My skin also blue tinted from the cold, and completely spent, I let go allowing the current to do what it longed to do since I’d entered the river.”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “We were like any other couple at the end of the world.”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “Why was it always easier to say the things in the dark, you couldn’t say in the light?”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “On this one long, blessed night we refused to worry, allowing only hopes and dreams for the future of the human race, held in the miniscule hands of these newborns.”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
    tags: childbirth, hope, new-beginnings
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “Seamus shuddered in horror, before he pulled himself together. Determined, he reached between my thighs and shoved hard. Pain, like the fire of a thousand suns, burned through my belly. I tried to squirm away from his hands, using mine to push him away.”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
    tags: breach-birth, childbirth, delivery, labor
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “There was something out there.
    And it was getting us.”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
    tags: fear, terror
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth’s future. So we could start over, and live happily-ever-after. It wasn’t turning out that way, was it?”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
    tags: cynical, disheartened, hopeless, hopeless-situation
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “Our town was christened Buyan, after the legend of a Slavic island that appeared, and disappeared, at will. That would later seem an eerie, and disconcerting, premonition.”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
    tags: eerie, legend, mythical, premonition, slavic-peoples
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “In a spirit of hope and new beginnings, we linked arms like a couple of kids. Pushing aside sad thoughts, we strode off into our future.”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
    tags: hope, hopeful, new-beginnings
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don’t find under most other circumstances.”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
    tags: communication, connectedness, connecting, connecting-with-people, philosophy-of-life
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “...I’m tired of everyone looking at me with pity in their eyes. I’m tired of feeling like my heart is being ripped out of my chest every damned day. I’m tired of waking up in the morning, and then remembering...”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
    tags: death-of-a-loved-one, loss, loss-of-child, loss-of-love, loss-quotes
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
    tags: anxiety, eagerness, impatience
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
    tags: life-and-death, life-and-living, pain, painful-memories
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “...The best guess we have, is we are on some kind of space craft. As for why, we don’t know anything other than what that alien said – the Earth was destroyed. And we’re on a lifeboat.” Sarcasm dripped from her lips with the last sentence.”
    ― a.b. shepherd
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby.”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
    tags: life-and-living, life-changing, life-experience
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “But who is ever fair in an argument?”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
    tags: humor, irony, life-lessons, life-philosophy, quirky
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “I kept staring at the door as if it held the secret to the universe.”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “He had a smile so warm it could melt a girl’s heart, and her knickers, all in one beautiful flash of teeth.”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “Sometimes careful just isn’t good enough.”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
    tags: life-changing, life-lessons, life-philosophy
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    A.B. Shepherd
    “I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
    tags: anticipation, hopeful, life-changing
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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