“Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.”

“I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.”

“Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.”

“It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.”

“Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.”

“There is no darkness like that of a confined space.”

“The world was a sick animal, a sort of huge cancerous tumour, a thing of bubbling liquids, whitish patches, dribbling pus, fantastic pimples of dead skin that grew in all directions, swelled up, be...”

“He walks the soft grass, wet with fresh rain, jeans slung low on his hips and shirt hanging open, still dripping from the fevered maelstrom that set fire to the night sky. Fury in his step and pass...”

“No amount of saying I love you and I trust you makes it true when it isnt.”

“Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.”