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The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)

by S.D. Smith (Goodreads Author)

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As the Shadow Rises (The Age of Darkness, #2)

by Katy Rose Pool (Goodreads Author)

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Sons, Daughters and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles

by Neil Gong

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“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

tags: depression, sadness

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“Love is too weak a word for what I feel - I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F's, yes.”
― Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay

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“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”
― John Keats

tags: depression, desolation, sadness

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“Like most humans, I am hungry...our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it...”
― M.F.K. Fisher, The Gastronomical Me

tags: food, humor

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