34 quotes found
“I'm not crazy or dangerous,just a bit eccentric and lonely.”
“You do it how you can do it, so long as it's getting done, you're okay.”
“The goal was to get sane, to get whole, to be complete enough to support someone else.”
“But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.”
“I think I've lost my faith and I can't stop writingbecause I don't know howmuch longer I can hold on.”
“No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.”
“When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have ...”
“If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.”
“I never lie I am a blatantly truthful person about almost everything. My addiction (or disease as some call it) always lies. I have had very good relationships, but the addict in me always fucked t...”
“It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I ...”
“When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.”
“What people don't understand when you've already been a suicide and pulled through is that after the sadness comes fear: Where is my mind going with this? I don't want to die. I do not want to die....”
“The sadness the general sadness that squats and pees inside my brain isn't over. It never will be. I know how best to chase it away, though. It usually works. Sometimes it doesn't. But I pray and s...”
“He meant everything he said, when he said it. But this is his default. And it won out. Right now you're depressed about one thing. Before you were depressed about everything. These are good times f...”
“I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's light.”
“It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're ...”
“There's a boy whose affection I am determined to hunt down and kill. It used to be material objects I felt I needed to be happy. It would make me feel stable if I had him. If I had someone like him...”
“In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is t...”
“Men and the pursuit of them are strongly intertwined with my mental health. I would say, in my defensive defense, that the problem with being a serial monogamist is, there isn't anybody random or u...”
“In hindsight, I have no idea why he was ever with me. He thought highly of my breasts. And . . . that's it, I think.”
“Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.”
