“I keep thinking as I'm spinning how everything looks so sad, but if this day were to go down in history, everyone would talk about what a beautiful day it was.” BeautyHistoryAlone Book:Solitaire Source: Solitaire
“Then I realise this has been coming for a long time. This is what people do when you get to this age. You start finding partners, kissing, having sex. I have no issues with people doing that- like, I'm sex positive, and Becky has wanted to have sex with Jack for quite a while. And I know that kissing and having sex isn't a race, and there are some people who never end up wanting to do those things anyway. But I guess it makes me feel like she's braver than me. She's putting herself out there. She's getting what she wants. And what am I doing? Nothing. I have no idea what I want.” SexGrowingBraveAloneRacing Book:Solitaire Source: Solitaire
“I don't want people to be worried about me. There's nothing to worry about. I don't want people to try and understand why I'm the way I am, because I should be the first person to understand that. And I don't understand yet. I don't want people to interfere. I don't want people in my head, picking out this and that, permanently picking up the broken pieces of me. If that's what friends do, then I don't want any.” IdentitySadDepressionAnxietyCrisisAlone Book:Solitaire Source: Solitaire
“I lie with my eyes open and think about everything that has happened in my entire life and it doesn't take me very long to het to where I am now.” SadDepressionEmptyAloneAwake At Night Book:Solitaire Source: Solitaire
“I'm out of the world. The giants and demons are rising and I am chasing them. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be sick. Am I hallucinating this? I am not the hero. It's funny because it's true. I begin to laugh, or maybe I'm crying. Maybe I don't care anymore. Maybe I'm going to pass out. Maybe I'll die when I'm twenty-seven.” TearsMental HealthAloneBreaking Book:Solitaire Source: Solitaire
“You think you've met bad people, and then you meet people who are worse. They're doing nothing - they're not- we're just as bad. We're just as bad for doing nothing. We don't care.” JusticeAloneBystander Book:Solitaire Source: Solitaire
“My brother, my little brother, he's soooo perfect, but he's - he doesn't like food, like, literally doesn't like food, or, I don't know, he loves it. He loves is so much that it has to be perfect all the time, you know?" "And then one day he got se fed up with himself, he was like, he was so annoyed, he hated how much he loved food, yeah, so he thought it would be better if there wasn't any food." I start laughing so much that my eyes water. "But that's so silly! Because you've got to eat food or you'll die, won't you? So my brother, Charles, Charlie, he, he thought it would be better if he just got it over with then and there! So last year, he-" I hold up my wrist and point at it- "he hurt himself. And he wrote me this card afterwards, telling me he was really sorry and he didn't mean it to happen. But it did happen.” AloneEating DisorderSelf HarmManicRelapse Book:Solitaire Source: Solitaire
“Nobody is trying to help. Nobody. nobody. I don't know what to do. If this were a film, I would be there, I would be the hero stopping this false justice. But this isn't a film. I am not the hero.” HeroAloneNobody CaresBistander Author:Alice Oseman
“Mum doesn't say anything because she's on the kitchen computer in her dressing gown. You'd think she was ignoring me deliberately, but she really is that engrossed is whatever dumb email she's writing.” MotherComputerAloneWorking ParentsIgnoration Book:Solitaire Source: Solitaire