“it’s not just sunshine and roses i want to hear about. tell me about the monsters hidden under your bed and about the skeletons you keep in your closet. then i’ll know you mean it. then i’ll know it’s real.”
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Source: ninasdrafts
Transition Words For Your Essays
Transition Signals:
Transitions are words and phrases that connect ideas and show how they are related.
To repeat and ideas just stated:
- In other words,
- That is,
- To repeat,
- Again,
To illustrate an idea:
- For example,
- For instance,
- In particular,
- To illustrate,
- In this manner,
- Thus,
To announce a contrast, a change in direction:
- Yet,
- However,
- Still,
- Nevertheless,
- On the other hand,
- In contrast,
- Instead of,
- On the contrary,
- Conversely,
- Notwithstanding,
- In spite of this,
Time:
- At once,
- In the interim,
- At length,
- Immediately,
- At last,
- Meanwhile,
- In the meantime,
- Presently,
- At the same time,
- Shortly,
- In the end,
- Temporarily,
- Thereafter,
To restate an idea more precisely:
- To be exact,
- To be specific,
- To be precise,
- More specifically,
- More precisely,
To mark a new idea as an addition to what has been said:
- Similarly,
- Also,
- Too,
- Besides,
- Furthermore,
- Further,
- Moreover,
- In addition,
To show cause and effect:
- As a result,
- For this reason,
- Thereafter,
- Hence,
- Consequently,
- Accordingly,
Conclusion:
- In short,
- To conclude,
- In brief,
- On the whole,
- In summary,
- To sum up,
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— Rosanna Warren, from Departure: Poems; “From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine,”
Maybe We feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in everything we used to love
-R.M. Drake
we yearn so badly to be healed, we let anyone in we cram them into what small space we have left hoping they have good intentions
- Samantha King Holmes
and maybe the person we wanted to hold on to was never the person we thought we needed
-r.h. Sin
“i don’t want anyone who is afraid to lose me. i’d rather have someone who has faith that i would never leave, but still understand that life goes on without me. i’d rather have someone who sees me as an extension of their being, instead of the sole reason for their existence.”
— iambrillyant
“And she’s scared of her heart. Oh, the things it can make her do.”
— etoile-filantes