18 Quotes by Danielle Esplin

I can hear the tick tick tick in my head: A tripwire ready to explode in fury. And then, in my mind, I start to count down from ten…any moment now.

The void inside me starts to fill, but my heart has holes, and whatever it holds will run out, leaving me empty once again.

He might not be here, but the day he misses an opportunity to party is the day Jocelyn Wildenstein is considered the paragon of beauty.

It’s all about that cosy, homey feeling, the one you leave behind when you travel across the world.

Ever since her diagnosis, she’s been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.

Oh, I just wasted two hundred dollars on a gym membership, which I didn’t use…even once. My shorts are getting shorter. Lately I’ve been looking like a slut—unintentionally of course.

As I rise from my seat, my notes almost fly to the floor. I quickly clutch them to my body before I awkwardly enter the interview room in a fucked-up-question-mark posture, walking as though I’m ten shits behind.

Since her diagnoses she has been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.

It’s as if everyone got cancer the day I was diagnosed, except I’m their tumor.