“And confessions of love have always seemed out of place when youre gasping for air, when youre begging for pain,when youre missing something, unable to change the channel.”

“I havent felt the full weightof the world on my shoulders,and I havent experienceda fraction of the painand embarrassment Ive put out into this great bigwhite world.”

“I think of drug dealers like I think of my father never really there when you want them to be.”

“In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else.”

“My desire to self-destruct is a one-night standon Groundhog Day.Fucking repetitive. Repetitively fucking.”

“I talk too much, but there's a lot unsaid. I've slept in a lot of beds.”

“They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. They will hate you when you get attent...”

“But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of th...”

“Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make...”

“Inspirational quotes are only making you more miserable.”

“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”

“The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.”

“The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.”

“I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?”

“Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.”