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Sad Heartbreak Cutters Girl In Pieces

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“Casper didn't give me direction for what to do if somebody I used to really like-like, somebody who would be somebody good to love, somebody right, somebody who understood about me, turned out to not have the same ideas about me.”

Heartbreak

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“You can spot the girls who have it easy. I don't even have to describe them for you. You can spot the girls who will get by on smarts. You can spot the girls who will get by because they are tough or athletic. And then there is me.”

Pain Mental Health Girls

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“If you want to shave your legs, a nurse or orderly has to be present, but no one wants that, and so our legs are like hairy-boy legs.”

Legs Trauma Girls Shave

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“Because when everything is said and done... the world runs on kindness. It simply has to, or we'd never be a able to bear ourselves. It might not seem so to you now, but it will when you're older." ~Ariel”

Heart Helping Peace Kindness Positive Goodness Helping Others Altruism

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.”

Pain Sadness Revolutionary Self Harm

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“My body is on fire all the time, burning me away day and night. I have to cut the black heat out. When I clean myself, wash and mend, I feel better ... I'm so lonely in the world I want to peel my flesh all off and walk, just bone and gristle, into the river to be swallowed ...”

Sadness Depression Self Harm

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“... I say sadness what I really mean is black hole inside me filled with nails and rocks and broken glass and the words I don't have anymore.”

Sadness Depression Emptiness Self Harm

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“Because while I say sadness what I really mean is black hole inside me filled with nails and rocks and broken glass and the words I don't have anymore.”

Sadness Sad Quotes Girl In Pieces

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“Eu cortei todas as minhas palavras fora. Meu coração estava cheio demais delas.”

Sadness

Book:Garota em pedaços

Source: Garota em pedaços

“Triste é como me sinto quando penso em Ellis, e até isso não é verdade, porque quando digo "tristeza", o que quero mesmo dizer é "um buraco negro dentro de mim cheio de pregos e pedras e vidro quebrado e de palavras que não tenho mais".”

Sadness

Book:Garota em pedaços

Source: Garota em pedaços

“Uma menina de ouro, de confiança, uma menina de ouro, de confiança: uma cantiga de ninar da menina que se corta inteira.”

Sadness

Book:Garota em pedaços

Source: Garota em pedaços

“Eu me corto porque não consigo lidar com as coisas. É simples assim. O mundo se torna um oceano, o oceano cai em cima de mim, o som da água é ensurdecedor, a água afoga meu coração, meu pânico fica do tamanho do mundo.”

Sadness

Book:Garota em pedaços

Source: Garota em pedaços

“De repente, acontece de novo, só que desta vez tenho a lembrança de como é cortar, cortar com força. O jeito como você tem que enfiar o vidro bem fundo, com rapidez, para abrir a pele e depois arrastar, arrastar com força, para fazer um rio no qual valha a pena se afogar.”

Sadness

Book:Garota em pedaços

Source: Garota em pedaços

“That's how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises.”

Believe Promise Heartache Heart Break

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“It could be disappointment, too, Tiger, and you need to prepare yourself for that. But if it's disappointing, it doesn't have to be devastating, does that make sense? Life has this, life has that, and then something else comes along again, like a wave. We ride the waves. You go down, you go up, you go down, sometimes you just drift.”

Life Disappointment

Book:How to Make Friends with the Dark

Source: How to Make Friends with the Dark

“It's all right if you can't remember. Our subconscious is spectacularly agile. Sometimes it knows when to take us away, as a kind of protection.”

Mind Memory Memory Loss

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa”

Pain Cutting Mental Health Stigma Speaking Self Harm Breaking Silence Undoing Stigma

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“I'm tired and angry at me. For letting myself get smaller and smaller in the hopes that he would notice me more. But how can someone notice you if you keep getting smaller?”

Self Angry Tired Smaller

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“I'm always losing things.”

Loneliness Losing Someone

Book:Girl in Pieces

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“There is being alone, and then there is being alone, They are not the same thing at all.”

Loneliness Mental Health

Book:Girl in Pieces

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“For all the people here, I am utterly alone.”

Sad Lonely

Book:Girl in Pieces

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“I'm finally going someplace, maybe someplace better, but she isn't with me, and it hurts.”

Sad Lonely

Book:Girl in Pieces

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“There is being alone, and there is being alone. They are not the same thing at all.”

Sad Lonely Alone

Book:Girl in Pieces

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“I am my own worst disaster.”

Sad Disaster

Book:Girl in Pieces

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“Maybe people just use different things to fill up the emptiness. Until it becomes less about feeling empty and more about feeding something else.”

Sad

Book:You'd Be Home Now

Source: You'd Be Home Now

“They make me...they make me think of being stuck somewhere? I don't know, like weighted down, but then these patches...”

Painting Sad Weighted Down

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“Girl listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world. Girl slips on headphones. World gone.”

Music World Gone

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“And I do find it comforting that maybe when you die you get back all the things you've lost, like your legs, or your parents, or your daughters, or even your mom, and you get to eat all the ice cream you want, finally, and it doesn't hurt one bit.”

Death Grief

Book:How to Make Friends with the Dark

Source: How to Make Friends with the Dark

“You feel like you are always behind, spinning your wheels. The universe doesn't wait for you to catch up anymore.”

Universe Behind

Book:How to Make Friends with the Dark

Source: How to Make Friends with the Dark

“Always the universe, against you.”

Universe

Book:How to Make Friends with the Dark

Source: How to Make Friends with the Dark

“The sky is postcard dreamy now, the clouds less full of rain, the sun a little stronger every day.”

Sun Sky Rain Clouds Dreamy Postcard

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“But there isn't a single word in the universe that you can think of that would describe the way you feel right now.”

Girl Grief And Loss Feeling

Book:How to Make Friends with the Dark

Source: How to Make Friends with the Dark

“Every morning when I wake up, I don’t think I’m going to make it. Or maybe I think that I don’t want to make it. I’m heavy with what I did the night before and I’m heavy with everything inside me and sometimes it is just too goddamn much to carry around.”

Fiction Psychology Mental Health Young Adult Contemporary Mental Illness Realistic Fiction

Book:The Glass Girl

Source: The Glass Girl

“Sometimes it feels like I live in a pinball machine and I’m the scratched-up ball, being knocked from one nook to the next, lights blaring, bells ringing. I can never stop the game because I am the game.”

Fiction Psychology Mental Health Young Adult Contemporary Mental Illness Realistic Fiction

Book:The Glass Girl

Source: The Glass Girl

“You’ve perfected a mask of powder and black eyeliner and a face for people to look at on the outside and maybe it’s not really who you are on the inside, but who wants to see that? That part is too much and not enough. That part is all hollows and a gray, dying heart.”

Fiction Psychology Mental Health Young Adult Contemporary Mental Illness Realistic Fiction

Book:The Glass Girl

Source: The Glass Girl

“You’ll see that person who took your heart and cleaved it in half and stuffed it in their mouth and swallowed and you want it back and you think you’ll never get it and who can live like that?”

Fiction Psychology Mental Health Young Adult Contemporary Mental Illness Realistic Fiction

Book:The Glass Girl

Source: The Glass Girl

“You own all of yourself, Charlie. Every last bit.”

Inspirational Confidence Mental Health Yourself Own

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic.”

Hope Positive Thinking Optimism Encouragement Unconventional

Book:Girl in Pieces

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“Dear Ellis, I have something really fucking angelic to tell you.”

Life Friendship Angelic

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“I believe if you can walk into the darkness, then you have the strength to walk back out.”

Hope Mental Health Addiction Teenager Self Harm

Book:The Glass Girl

Source: The Glass Girl

“Don't let the cereal eat you. It's only a fucking box of cereal, but it will eat you alive if you let it.”

Kill Cereal

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“But the fucked-up part is once you start self-harming, you can never not be a creepy freak, because your whole body is now a scarred and charred battlefield and nobody likes that on a girl, nobody will love that, and so all of us, every one, is screwed, inside and out. Wash, rinse, fucking repeat.”

Love Charlie Self Harm Girl In Pieces Kathleen Glasgow

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“OUT. CUT IT ALL OUT. Cut out my father. Cut out my mother. Cut out missing Ellis. Cut out the man in the underpass, cut out Fucking Frank, the men downstairs; the people on the street with too many people inside them, cut out hungry, and sad and tired, and being nobody and unpretty and unloved, just cut it all out, get smaller and smaller until I was nothing.”

Girl In Pieces

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“There are too many people in my head. I claw at my body to get them out, to peel out the blackness spreading inside me. I’m running blind, ghosts swallowing me.”

Charlie Self Harm Girl In Pieces Kathleen Glasgow

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“I’m so unwhole. I don’t know where all the pieces of me are, how to fit them together, how to make them stick. Or if I even can.”

Broken Charlie Charlotte Girl In Pieces Kathleen Glasgow

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“They should tell you, right when you get here, that that part of wishing is over. What we’ve done, no one will love us. Not in a normal way.”

Love Charlie Self Harm Girl In Pieces Louisa Kathleen Glasgow

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“Because when you’re hurt, and someone loves you, they’re supposed to help you, right?”

Mentally Ill Girl In Pieces Kathleen Glasgow

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“you must have a million storys inside you”

Girl In Pieces

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

“i wrote the story of charlie davis for the cutters and the burners and the kids on the street that have no where safe to sleep. i wrote the story of charlie davis for their mothers and fathers and for their friends.”

Girl In Pieces

Book:Girl in Pieces

Source: Girl in Pieces

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