Quotes by Shannon L. Alder

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Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.

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Unrequited love is the only emotion that allows sane people to taste the “life sentence” of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer they hang onto a lost cause the more unstable they look to everyone else. They contradict their own belief syste...

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The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

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Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.

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You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.

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Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of your reality is not their reality.

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The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.

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When I die I hope it may be said: 'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.

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An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.

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The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.

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The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.

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Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

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Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.

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Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

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I am quite scandalous, you see. I come packaged with unpredictable moments, brutal honesty, calamitous outbursts, the ghastly need for love, a fiendish lack of filter, the horrific need to question everything, nauseating affection, offensive kindness...

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It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like. It’s creepy, but had good intentions that suddenly experienced some stran...

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Every broken heart has one time or another asked, "What is important to me now?

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Why do women waste their time trying to convince their insecure family members and girlfriends that they are beautiful? Self esteem is not a beauty cream that you can rub all over them and see instant results. Instead, convince them they are not stup...

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Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

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God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

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People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant and don’t matter. They are not going to understand you, or even see the point of why God had you hang in there with them for so long. ...

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