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“Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors reassure him, flash lights in his eyes, checks his pules. I'm disappointed that mine was not the first face he saw when he woke up, but he sees it now. His features registrer disbelief and something more intense that I can't quite place. Desire? Desperation? Surely both, for he sweeps the doctors aside, leaps to his feets and moves towards me. I run to meet him, my arms extended to embrace him. His hands are reaching for mine too, to caress my face, I think.
My lips are forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.”
― Mockingjay
My lips are forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.”
― Mockingjay

“No one ever told me how sorrow traumatizes your heart, making you think it will never beat exactly the same way again. No one ever told me how grief feels like a wet sock in my mouth. One I鈥檓 forced to breathe through, thinking that with each breath I鈥檒l come up short and suffocate.”
― Awoken
― Awoken

“An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would suffocate her just as surely as the sea would have”
― Moloka'i
― Moloka'i

“We recklessly attempt to disguise our 鈥榞reed鈥� by dressing it in the garb of other nobler ideals such as 鈥榬ights鈥� and 鈥榩rivileges.鈥� Yet, if we dare dress 鈥榞reed鈥� in an authentic sense of thankfulness, greed will suffocate within the folds of that very clothing.”
― Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
― Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“Ironic that a narcissist would end up dominated by a narcissist. (Da 4:29-35) The most suffocating characteristic of a narcissist is, they don鈥檛 allow liberty, freedom, or imperfection. The narcissistic boss/spouse/parent, think others exist to shine their star.
Lamentations, pg 7”
― Lamentations: how narcissistic leaders torment church and family
Lamentations, pg 7”
― Lamentations: how narcissistic leaders torment church and family

“Questions shaped like slow elevators deserve jazz oxygen. You know, music designed to suffocate a small space.”
― Eggs, they鈥檙e not just for breakfast
― Eggs, they鈥檙e not just for breakfast

“Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.”
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“You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people鈥檚 happiness suffocate.”
― Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
― Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“I woke up in the middle of the night suffocating and gasping for breath. After a minute or so of difficulty breathing, I realized that there had been a electricity failure and that my continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) medical life support machine had stopped working.”
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“His love had this pull like a quicksand and she was soon all buried deep in it except for her eyes. She could no longer move, breath or make a sound of a cry or laughter. But she could still see. From a distance she could still see her love for him. It looked like a shore with mountains on one side, infinity blue above and waves of all sizes broke onto that shore. Waves he could ride his whole life.”
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“If I fashion a box for my dreams and then carefully pack them away in that box, I no longer have dreams.”
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“Stop trying to control people. Let em be free.
The tighter the strangle, the bigger the struggle.
Lighten your grip. Let them breathe.
People who are suffocating at the hands of would-be do-gooders don鈥檛 get better, they get bitter...and run.”
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The tighter the strangle, the bigger the struggle.
Lighten your grip. Let them breathe.
People who are suffocating at the hands of would-be do-gooders don鈥檛 get better, they get bitter...and run.”
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“High altitude pulmonary edema has killed many mountaineers. Just like COVID-19, they suffocate from fluid filled lungs.”
― Magee鈥檚 Disease
― Magee鈥檚 Disease

“We think that boxes take everything that鈥檚 bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.”
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