“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.”

“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.”

“But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In lif...”

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”

“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”

“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it al...”

“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”