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I write about my past experiences including loss, trauma, and hope. I hope that my writing reaches you to the depths of your core.

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	Write like no one is reading by Crystal Woods (Goodreads Author), Jarod Kintz, Jennifer Harrison (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Write like no one is reading 2 by Crystal Woods (Goodreads Author), Jarod Kintz, Megha Khare 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Better to be able to love than to be loveable by Amanda Mosher (Goodreads Author), Jarod Kintz, Aleksandra Ninković (Goodreads Author) 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	liQUID PROse QUOtes by Jarod Kintz, Crystal Woods (Goodreads Author), James Lee Schmidt (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wash Your Hands Juno! — Teaching Kids About Hygiene by Karen Quan (Goodreads Author), Elroy Quan (Contributor), Zaheer Kazi Coutinho (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Life That's Waiting

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The Pivot Year

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“How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.”
― Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading 2

tags: beautiful, beauty, bodies, body-image, compassion, curves, deeper-meaning, gorgeous, love, sexual, souls, vanity

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“You know what truly aches? Having so much inside you and not having the slightest clue of how to pour it out.”
― Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading

tags: aches, bottled-up, clueless, emotional, emotional-pain, heartache, inside, love, sincerity

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“My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz”
― Karen Quan, liQUID PROse QUOtes

tags: ashes, communication, desire, disappointment, excitement, flutter, heart, instaquote, love, phoenix, relationships, romance, romantic, sink, sinking, speak, speaking, talk, talking, time, word-junkies

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Karen’s Quotes

“I have always wanted to give you the world, so I started giving you pieces of the oceans that kept us apart.”
― Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading

tags: apart, emotional, far-away, heartache, love, love-quotes, ocean, oceans, pieces, pushed-me-further-away, relationships, sad, without-you, world

48 likes

“I now have anti-bodies to assholes after working for so many.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading

tags: assholes, bad-boss, bosses, career, job, work

19 likes

“I write because it's the only thing I love that always loves me back.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading

tags: authors, best, feelings, life, love, reciprocation, self-love, therapy, writing

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“Falling in love is easy. Falling in love with the same person repeatedly is extraordinary.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading

tags: extraordinary, falling-in-love, forever, lovers, madly, passion, soul-mate

142 likes

“I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?”
― Ryan Lilly, Write like no one is reading