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Danielle West

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Contemporary, Fiction, Memoir

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Danielle West was born in a suburb of Boston, Ma. She has lived in forts in the woods, cardboard boxes on the streets of Toronto and in fancy high rise flats in London. An avid reader she could always find solace, adventure or distraction in a good book no matter how empty her pockets were.

Danielle has been a go-go dancer for Boston punk bands, helped start the UK's first roller derby league (the London Rollergirls who are still going strong) and has competed professionally in mixed martial arts all over the world. She enjoys making soap, singing badly at karaoke, diving and writing stories that people enjoy reading.

She published her first novel All Change Please, written over seven years on her Blackberry, in 2012 and her memoir Girls Can ...more

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“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

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“Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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“Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.”
― Martin Amis, Other People

tags: fear, social-anxiety

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“You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
― Alice Sebold

tags: inspirational, rape, self-responsibility

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