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| abduction | abhorrent | abolish | ambiguous | anonymous |
| apathy | assimilate | assumption | authority | avid |
| backpack | banned | basement | beach | belligerent |
| bisect | bitter | bizarre | blank | boycott |
| capable | cause | cease | character | clock |
| commence | compel | conclude | consistent | coporal |
| damned | damp | dark | dearest | delight |
| despicable | detained | dinner | double | doughnut |
| easy | eating | elevate | embrace | endeavor |
| entered | entrapment | evade | evolve | excitement |
| face | fan | fantasy | faster | feeble |
| feast | finish | fire | flying | frenzy |
| gamble | games | garment | gentle | gesture |
| glance | glint | glower | gross | growing |
| handle | haste | hat | hatred | headache |
| hear | hidden | hope | hot | husband |
| ice | ice cream | identity | idiot | illness |
| illusion | imaginary | imitate | incendiary | involuntary |
| jabber | jackpot | jail | jeans | jewelry |
| jogging | jet-lagged | joyful | junk | juvenile |
| kaleidoscope | karats | karma | keepsake | kidnapping |
| kindergarten | kiosk | kitchen | knowledge | kowtow |
| labor | laborotory | lady | lake | languid |
| lazy | leap | leash | lesson | lunar |
| machine | mad | magic | mobile | |
| map | manage | mangle | market | marriage |
| nagging | nails | namesake | natural | needle |
| negative | nerd | nervous | nightmare | numb |
| oatmeal | objective | obscure | observe | omelet |
| omission | opulent | organic | outburst | overheated |
| pacifist | packed | paid | paperback | perfume |
| permanent | persuasion | police | pronouns | prophecy |
| quadrant | quaint | quarantine | quarter | queen |
| queer | question | quiche | quiet | quote |
| rabbit | racism | radiant | ravage | recover |
| relaxation | religion | rental | reunion | rowdy |
| sabbatical | sadist | sailing | sarcastic | schism |
| silence | silly | soup | stress | striptease |
| table | taboo | tainted | tenacious | terminate |
| terrifying | theater | thirsty | touchstone | turtle |
| ubiquitous | ugly | unanimous | uncomfortable | underground |
| unrealistic | unstoppable | unveil | urban | utopia |
| vacant | vaccination | vandalism | verge | versatile |
| vigilante | village | volcanic | vomit | vulnerability |
| waffle | wait | wanton | washcloth | weekend |
| wicked | whoops | wildlife | workload | wreckage |
| xenophobia | xerox | x-rated | x-ray | xylophone |
| yacht | yearbook | yearning | yesterday | yoga |
| yogurt | youth | yuck | yuletide | yum |
| zany | zealous | zest | zip code | zipper |
| zodiac | zombie | zone | zoo | zoom |
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| Given the throne, I didn’t know how to believe I was the queen I'm meant to be. I lived two lives, tried to play both sides. But I couldn’t find my own place. (HUNTR/ X) | So much of me is made of what I learned from you. You'll be with me, like a handprint on my heart. (Stephen Schwartz) | It's been a long hard fight, but I see a brand new day a-dawning. (Dolly Parton) | So when you look at me, you better look hard and look twice. Is that me, baby, or just a brilliant disguise? (Springsteen) | String of pearls to keep the bind, twisting tighter, is it fine? (Spiritbox) |
| If you really want to free me, tell my mummy that she’s pretty. Melanin is not your enemy. (Joy Crookes) | Get over your hill and see what you find there, with grace in your heart and flowers in your hair. (Mumford & Sons) | Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword. Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me, I should know. (Hozier) | Our coming of age has come and gone. (Taylor Swift) | The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. (Nat King Cole) |
| Don’t worry where we end up. Ending-up’s not real. The life we build, we never stop creating. (Jimmy Eat World)) | Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. (Semisonic) | The chains of love are cruel, I shouldn't feel like a prisoner. My face is turnin' blue. (Charli XCX)) | If we were blind and had no choice, but we hate each other by the tone of our voice? (Anthrax) | It ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one. (CCR) |
| Just because you feel it doesn't mean it's there. (Radiohead) | Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees. (Eric Clapton) | Don’t touch my hair when it’s the feelings I wear. Don’t touch my soul when it’s the rhythm I know. (Solange) | Don’t you know they’re talkin’ bout a revolution? It sounds like a whisper. (Tracy Chapman) | I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth. (The Who) |
| Your prison is walking through this world all alone. (The Eagles) | I never thought about love when I thought about home. (The National) | The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls. (Simon & Garfunkel) | You make me stay when I should not. Are you so strong, or is all the weakness in me? (Joan Armatrading) | Everything I do, I do it with a passion. If I gotta be a bitch, Imma be a bad one. (Kehlani) |
| I see her in the back of my mind, all the time. Like a fever, like I'm burning alive. Like a sign. (Billie Eilish) | Anxiety keep on tryin' me. I feel it quietly tryin' to silence me. (Doechii) | If I stopped blaming the world for my faults, I could evolve. Maybe the pressure made me too soft. (SZA) | I'm the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. (Olivia Dean) | Let's pretend it's not the end of the world. (Miley Cyrus) |
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| Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder. (E.B. White) | Look at life with the eyes of a child. (Matisse) | Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. (H. Keller) | A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots. (M. Garvey) | Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. (M. Angelou) |
| Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. (A. Nin) | The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. (A. Walker) | Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. (T. Morrison) | Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced. (J. Baldwin) | Where there is a woman, there is magic. (N. Shange) |
| I dwell in possibility. (E. Dickinson) | Truth is powerful and it prevails. (S. Truth) | You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served. (N. Simone) | My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature. (Monet) | Love is the absence of judgment. (Dalai Lama) |
| Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time. (K. Mayer) | Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. (Confucius) | We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents. (B. Ross) | Nature is the source of all true knowledge. (Da Vinci) | You only live once, but if you do it right, once is only enough. (M. West) |
| Life is tough, my darling, but so are you. (S. Bennett-Henry) | We realize the importance of our voices only when they are silenced. (Malala) | It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine. (B. Katie) | All that we are is the result of what we have thought. (Buddha) | The only thing I know is that I know nothing. (Socrates) |
| Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. (Shakespeare) | Better to die standing than to live on your knees. (E. Guevara) | I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. (A. Frank) | You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. (Rumi) | Little by little, one travels far. (Tolkien) |
| Better to build a bridge than a wall. (E. John) | Hell is other people! (Sartre) | Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it. (Dalí) | We need fantasy to survive reality. (Lady Gaga) | Stumbling is not falling. (Malcolm X) |
| Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. (J. Baldwin) | That which does not kill us makes us stronger. (Nietzsche) | Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. (Voltaire) | Small steps motivate. Big steps overwhelm. (M. Lagacé) | It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop. (Confucius) |
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| What is a secret you've kept for years? | Imagine you meet your childhood self—what advice do you give? | Describe the last time you felt completely at peace. | Write about a time you questioned your beliefs. | Explore the concept of home—what does it mean to you? |
| Describe the most beautiful place you've ever seen. | Write about a time when you felt truly alone. | Describe a moment when you felt a strong connection to someone or something. | What's the most important lesson you've learned in life so far? | Write about a time when you felt completely free. |
| Write about a tiime you had to confront your greatest fear. | What is the one thing you would change about yourself? | What is one thing you wish more people got about who you are? | Write about a time when you had to be brave. | What's the best piece of advice you've ever received? |
| Describe a time when you felt truly content. | Write about a time when you had to say a difficult goodbye. | Write about a time when you had to make a sacrifice. | Describe a time when you felt like you belonged. | What is a hobby you've always been interested in but haven't pursued? |
| Write a letter to someone who has wronged you. | Describe your perfect day from start to finish. | Write about a moment that changed your life forever. | Talk about a time when you had to make a tough call. | Write about the relationship that has taught you the most. |
| Describe a place you’ve never been but feel drawn to. | Write about a time you were completely honest, even though it was difficult. | Explore the concept of fate—do you believe in it? | Imagine you could relive one day of your life—what would it be, and why? | Write about a time when you felt completely out of control. |
| What’s something you’ve always wanted to do but haven’t yet? Why? | Reflect on someone who has had a major impact on your personal journey. | Write from the perspective of a nonhuman character or an inanimate object. | Use an unreliable narrator. | Write from the perspective of a character who doesn't want to tell this story. |
| Describe four items your character has in their pockets or bag, and think about how they got there and why. | Describe a place your character considers their own, and describe how they inhabit that space. What are the habits, rituals, or strong associations/memories they have of it? | Write about a personal tradition your character has. How did it begin? Why do they still do it? | Let your charaacter describe themselves in their own words, then write about how someone who liked them, or didn't like them would describe or percieve them. | Your character is trying to convince themselves of something. What, why, and how? |
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| (S)He bent down to pick up what (s)he thought was a half-buried seashell. | Just when I thought I was finished crying, the phone rang. | On a night like this, the sky should be full of stars, but as I looked up, my legs buckled beneath me. | (S)He had forgiven everyone and emptied her/his home of all that gave it meaning. | Three times now, I had almost died, and no one noticed. |
| Today was the day I would find out if my entire life was a lie. | We don't need mutations to strip men of their humanity. | All I know for sure is that you can't rely on the past. | This world was never meant to survive me. | At first, I thought it was the cat making that noise, until it wound between my feet. |
| Unfortunately, it wasn't my suitcase I had picked up at the airport. | Why is it always the fucking clowns? | As far as they were concerned, (s)he was a typical teenager in a hoodie. | He made it sound as though the worst thing I could be was this. | Wait, how did you get out of there? |
| I swear that I'm not heartless. | Could you please remember that I'm on your side? | Insecurity is not an attractive trait, yet here we are. | I had the same dream every night and it was starting to scare me. | Suddenly I felt that I was very underdressed. |
| It's been one hell of a weekend. | We are quite concerned that you're going crazy. | (S)He shouldn’t have made me choose between my world and this one. | If only (s)he hadn’t bought the red one. | So, tell me the truth, how scary was I? |
| Everything's just fine and fuckin' dandy. | (S)He had no regard for her/his life, nor anyone else's. | Could you please stop sharpening the knives?! | Sometimes it's better to just embrace the darkness. | The cold spread through my body before I ever saw it. |
| The easiest part of life is the dying. | One bite, and his/her eyes closed, his/her focus turned inward, while (s)he quietly exhaled. | I'm not exactly sure how it happened. | The letter arrived, but with no postage. | Even as the blood dripped from my fingertips, I could feel no pain. |
| I can feel it growing inside me every minute of the day. | I don't understand why this time should be any different | We never expected it to end this way | How did I get into this mess? | When did the nights become so cold? |
| It's time to return to the land of the living | I don't understand what I did wrong | I don't want to be a hero -- heroes get other people killed. | The best part of my day is when I finally see him/her | (S)He was the kind of person who loudly insulted others' intelligence while neglecting their own. |
| I don't sleep with that stone unless I want to wake up feeling as though I spent the whole night running. | In exchange for the apartment, (s)he had agreed to bring the captive his/her meals. | For some reason, no one thought to question the housekeeper. | As soon as they crossed the threshold, (s)he caught a whiff of something. | How dare (s)he tell me what I need? |
| I was tired before my first sip of wine. | I'm pretty sure something just bit me. | Why should I get away with it? | I was frantically looking for a bathroom. | I don't know where I am, but this doesn't look like home. |
| What doesn't kill you will make you wish you were dead. | Memory is all around us, as well as within. | I fight for what they've had from birth. | There was something in the water that now lives in me. | That really can't be normal. |
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